Forklifts manufacturing · Indiana

Toyota Material Handling Heavy Duty

East Chicago, IN · ~244 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Toyota Material Handling Heavy Duty runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Forklifts manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Toyota Material Handling Heavy Duty: 5.5 TCR = 165% of Forklifts manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Toyota Material Handling Heavy Duty safety composite

Toyota Material Handling Heavy Duty scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.1

2021→2022

Toyota Material Handling Heavy Duty injury rate improved

Toyota Material Handling Heavy Duty's TCR fell 1.1 from 6.0 in 2021 to 4.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=6.0 · 2022=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333924 · East Chicago, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 165% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO Raymond-Muscatine, I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~244 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Raymond-Muscatine, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Toyota Material Handling Heavy Duty in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Toyota Material Handling Heavy Duty averages 5.5 TCR (165% of the Forklifts manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Toyota Material Handling Heavy Duty TCR series: 2021=6 · 2022=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Toyota Material Handling Heavy Duty falls in its industry

167 Forklifts manufacturing establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 11 Forklifts manufacturing employers in Indiana.

Toyota Material Handling Heavy Duty (244 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Toyota Material Handling Heavy Duty
Toyota Material Handling Heavy Duty (244 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Toyota Material Handling Heavy Duty has more employees than the Forklifts manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2022 4.9 3.7 12 0 0
2021 6.0 5.6 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333924 · IN · East Chicago

167 Forklifts manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 69 employers in East Chicago, 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 Raymond-Muscatine, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southwest Products - Surprise 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodbine Manufacturing 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FIBA Technologies - Louisville KY 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hagerman, Inc. 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE 192-PL001 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flexaust Company, Incorporated 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE NUCOR FASTENER 244 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arcelormittal Indiana Harbor 3,844 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland-Cliffs - Indiana Harbor 3,192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ameristar East Chicago 1,371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ameristar Casino and Hotel East Chicago 1,155 FTE
NAT-TCR 958 - Chula Vista South 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR United Farmers Cooperative (Red Oak) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wikau - Appleton 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Vibra Hospital of Boise, LLC d/b/a Vibra Hospital of Boise 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 55497 Union County 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Superior Group LLC 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harper Brothers Construction 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE Exton, PA 244 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.