OSHA Rate

Since the beginning of SIA, safety has always been a top priority. In 1999, SIA’s OSHA Incident Rate was 11.7. That was about half of the automobile manufacturing industry average of 22.7. Since then, SIA’s incident rate has declined to 1.96 in 2008. That’s four times better than the most recent reported U.S. automobile manufacturing industry average of 8.1 in 2007. Since 2002, SIA has had the lowest OSHA Incident Rate of all the automakers in the United States.

Indiana’s overall OSHA Incident Rate was 5.2 in 2007, well above the national average of 4.2. Manufacturers in Indiana had a combined incident rate of 6.6 in 2007, approximately a 10% decrease from 7.3 in 2006. Even with the 10% decrease, Indiana manufacturers had an incident rate that was over three times higher than SIA.

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