Truck Trailer Manufacturing · Indiana

Wabash Lafayette South

Lafayette, IN · ~234 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wabash Lafayette South runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Truck Trailer Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Wabash Lafayette South: 5.6 TCR = 171% of Truck Trailer Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wabash Lafayette South safety composite

Wabash Lafayette South scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

−2.6

2021→2024

Wabash Lafayette South injury rate improved

Wabash Lafayette South's TCR fell 2.6 from 6.6 in 2021 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=6.6 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Lafayette, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 171% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #25/45
  • PHOTO Big Tex Manufacturin…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~234 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Tex Manufacturing, LLC Wills Point (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wabash Lafayette South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wabash Lafayette South averages 5.6 TCR (171% of the Truck Trailer Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wabash Lafayette South TCR series: 2021=6.6 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Wabash Lafayette South falls in its industry

474 Truck Trailer Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 45 Truck Trailer Manufacturing employers in Indiana.

Wabash Lafayette South (234 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Wabash Lafayette South
Wabash Lafayette South (234 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Wabash Lafayette South has more employees than the Truck Trailer Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 4.0 1.3 8 1 0
2023 7.1 2.6 6 2 0
2022 4.8 3.9 10 1 0
2021 6.6 2.6 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · IN · Lafayette

474 Truck Trailer Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 205 employers in Lafayette, 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 Big Tex Manufacturing, LLC Wills Point 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 118_15957 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TKI Mitchell 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fontaine Specialized 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 102962 - St Joseph Energy Center 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gribbins Insulation Company, Inc. 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keystone RV Corporate Office 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE 021-00995 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. 6,222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lafayette Operations 3,025 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wabash Lafayette North 2,452 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arnett Hospital 2,070 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon Retail LLC - MAG3 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Westside Welding, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Canopy at Boynton Ridge 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Henry Ford Grosse Point Optical 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Concord Police 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cliff House 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chelsea Place Care Center LLC 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5088 West Columbia Rdc 234 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.

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

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