Flakes, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills · Indiana

Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc.

Name: Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Fort Wayne, IN · ~155 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc. runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Flakes, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills workplace, earning a grade D.

Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc.: 6.3 TCR = 189% of Flakes, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc. safety composite

Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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).

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc.: 4.3 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2024

Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.7 from 4.3 in 2021 to 8.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Fort Wayne, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 189% of ind

DART 5.0 DART
RANK #39/42
PHOTO KYOEI STEEL AMERICA,…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 46 inj
SIZE ~155 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KYOEI STEEL AMERICA, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.4
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6.3
KYOEI STEEL AM

6.3
MSsteel

6.3
Cleveland-Clif

6.1

What this shows Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc. averages 6.3 TCR (189% of the Flakes, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS benchmark).

Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc. TCR series: 2021=4.3 · 2022=5 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=8 · BLS 3.3

Where Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc. falls in its industry

416 Flakes, iron or steel, made in establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 42 Flakes, iron or steel, made in employers in Indiana.

Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc. (155 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc. has more employees than the Flakes, iron or steel, made in iron and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2024	8.0	5.0	15	1
2023	7.7	5.3	13	0
2022	5.0	3.1	8	0
2021	4.3	4.0	10	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IN · Fort Wayne

416 Flakes, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 634 employers in Fort Wayne, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	KYOEI STEEL AMERICA, LLC	VINTON, TX	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	MSsteel	COLUMBUS, MS	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Southwest Steel Processing	NEWPORT, AR	6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cleveland-Cliffs Steelton LLC	STEELTON, PA	6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Michael Kinder & Sons	FORT WAYNE	155 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Gwinnup Restoration & Environmental Services	INDIANAPOLIS	155 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Frank Miller Lumber Company	UNION CITY	155 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mactac Columbus	COLUMBUS	155 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Parkview Memorial Hospital	Fort Wayne	6,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Parkview North Hospital	Fort Wayne	4,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Parkview Corporate Office	Fort Wayne	3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Shambaugh & Son LP	Fort Wayne	3,072 FTE
NAT-TCR	Hilmar Cheese Company INC.	Hilmar, CA	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	General Metals Corp.	Miami, FL	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Store 109	Walnut Cove, NC	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Raleys 415- Freeport Blvd	Sacramento, CA	6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Blue Cardinal Inc	Alpharetta, GA	155 FTE
NAT-SIZE	D36 Philadelphia	Moorestown, NJ	155 FTE
NAT-SIZE	1225 Brooklyn Ny	Brooklyn, NY	155 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Youngwood PA	Youngwood, PA	155 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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