Mail and Parcel Delivery · Indiana

171507-Chesterton Po

Chesterton, IN · ~40 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

171507-Chesterton Po runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mail and Parcel Delivery workplace, earning a grade D.

171507-Chesterton Po: 8.4 TCR = 186% of Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

171507-Chesterton Po safety composite

171507-Chesterton Po scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Rising injury rate

171507-Chesterton Po: 3.2 → 20.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 20.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.77× in 2022

171507-Chesterton Po's TCR rose 17.5 from 3.2 in 2017 to 20.7 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 491110 · Chesterton, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.4 · 186% of ind

  • DART 14.8 DART
  • RANK #181/298
  • PHOTO MORNINGSIDE_1387637
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MORNINGSIDE_1387637 (0.0 TCR gap)

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171507-Chesterton Po in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 171507-Chesterton Po averages 8.4 TCR (186% of the Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS benchmark).

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

171507-Chesterton Po TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2018=12.5 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=20.7 · BLS 4.5

Where 171507-Chesterton Po falls in its industry

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #181 safest of 298 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers in Indiana.

171507-Chesterton Po (40 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8 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 050100150 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 171507-Chesterton Po
171507-Chesterton Po (40 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8

171507-Chesterton Po has fewer employees than the Mail and Parcel Delivery median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.8. 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 20.7 14.8 5 2 0
2021 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2020 5.5 5.5 2 0 0
2019 5.5 5.5 2 0 0
2018 12.5 12.5 4 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

491110 · IN · Chesterton

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 27 employers in Chesterton, 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 MORNINGSIDE_1387637 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CROSBY_1359879 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WYKAGYL_1388375 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR GARDEN GROVE_1364423 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE 320-NiSource-Chesterton IN-Bailly Gen 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baer Field Service Center 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE IND-DWH-INDIANA 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Urschel 447 FTE
CITY-NEAR Urschel Laboratories 442 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000003189 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000001189 167 FTE
NAT-TCR 471566-Cha-Red Bank Br 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 476167-Nas-Jere Baxter Br 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 115986-Mlt-Pace Carrier Anx 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 127816-Sav-Southside Sta 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 382097-Day-West Carrollton Br 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 381681-Cle-North Royalton Br 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 381668-Cle-Independence Br 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 382394-East Liverpool Po 40 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.