Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Indiana
Universal Bearings LLC
Bremen, IN · ~315 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 4.9
- Avg TCR
- 5.4
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Universal Bearings LLC runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 4.9
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 5.4
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 88
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Universal Bearings LLC's OSHA Total Case Rate of 4.9 to the Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark of 5.4 (91% of benchmark) across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Universal Bearings LLC's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 5.4 industry benchmark.
Where Universal Bearings LLC falls in its industry
339 Axle bearings, automotive, tru establishmentsSafer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.
Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 43 Axle bearings, automotive, tru employers in Indiana.
Trend analysis for Universal Bearings LLC
Between 2018 and 2024, Universal Bearings LLC's Total Case Rate improved from 3.4 to 2.3 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 33% decrease across 6 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2024, at a TCR of 2.3, while 2020 saw the highest rate, at 8.2, a spread of 5.9 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 7 reporting years, Universal Bearings LLC recorded 88 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 88 injuries, 18 illnesses shown on this page for Universal Bearings LLC are sourced from its own 7 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 336350 - Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
3 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 616,121 hours worked = 0.97 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Universal Bearings LLC (this establishment) | 4.91 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg |
| Transmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing industry avg | 5.40 | BLS IIF, NAICS 336350 |
| Indiana state avg (all industries) | 4.53 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Universal Bearings LLC to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 7 reportable incidents · 7 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 16 reportable incidents · 16 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 13 reportable incidents · 13 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 24 reportable incidents · 22 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 20 reportable incidents · 12 injuries, 8 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 13 reportable incidents · 9 injuries, 4 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 13 reportable incidents · 9 injuries, 4 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 5.0 | 3.5 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 7.9 | 4.0 | 22 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020 | 8.2 | 4.1 | 12 | 8 | 0 |
| 2019 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 9 | 4 | 0 |
| 2018 | 3.4 | 0.5 | 9 | 4 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Universal Bearings LLC's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.
- At 91% of the Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing benchmark, Universal Bearings LLC reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Axle bearings, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.