Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping · Indiana

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Auburn

Auburn, IN · ~167 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Auburn runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping workplace, earning a grade A.

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Auburn: 2.2 TCR = 41% of Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping BLS 5.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Auburn safety composite

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Auburn scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Auburn: 2.8 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Auburn's TCR rose 2.6 from 2.8 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336370 · Auburn, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.2 · 41% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/31
  • PHOTO Shiloh Industries LL…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shiloh Industries LLC Valley City (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Auburn in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Auburn averages 2.2 TCR (41% of the Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Auburn TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2017=0.5 · 2018=0.6 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 5.4

Where Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Auburn falls in its industry

510 Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 31 Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping employers in Indiana.

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Auburn (167 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 employees and a TCR of 4.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,500 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Auburn
Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Auburn (167 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Auburn has more employees than the Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 5.5 0.0 7 0 0
2023 1.5 0.0 2 0 0
2018 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2016 2.8 1.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336370 · IN · Auburn

510 Motor Vehicle Metal Stamping employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 50 employers in Auburn, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Shiloh Industries LLC Valley City 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Challenge Kentucky 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elringklinger USA, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tower Automotive Operation USA, LLC - Bardstown 1 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE PCI Indianapolis Interior 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ameri-Kart Corp. IN 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marian Inc. HQ 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worthington Steel Porter 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeKalb Health 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6074 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Standard Automotive 503 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6074 502 FTE
NAT-TCR California Steel Services 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MI03-UDX-FLUSHING 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR First Coast Terminals 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Airside Technology Corporation 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE ADF International 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cutler Repaving, Inc. 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE CVRx, Inc. 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Concord Feed & Fuel 167 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.