Mail and Parcel Delivery · Indiana

178976-Valparaiso Po

Valparaiso, IN · ~123 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

178976-Valparaiso Po runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mail and Parcel Delivery workplace, earning a grade D.

178976-Valparaiso Po: 8.0 TCR = 177% of Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

178976-Valparaiso Po safety composite

178976-Valparaiso Po scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

178976-Valparaiso Po: 8.0 → 17.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 17.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.97× in 2022

178976-Valparaiso Po's TCR rose 9.4 from 8.0 in 2017 to 17.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 491110 · Valparaiso, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 177% of ind

  • DART 15.7 DART
  • RANK #165/298
  • PHOTO ORMOND BEACH_1376303
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ORMOND BEACH_1376303 (0.0 TCR gap)

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178976-Valparaiso Po in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 178976-Valparaiso Po averages 8.0 TCR (177% 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

178976-Valparaiso Po TCR series: 2017=8 · 2018=5.9 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=17.4 · BLS 4.5

Where 178976-Valparaiso Po falls in its industry

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #165 safest of 298 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers in Indiana.

178976-Valparaiso Po (123 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 178976-Valparaiso Po
178976-Valparaiso Po (123 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8

178976-Valparaiso Po has more 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 17.4 15.7 10 10 0
2021 8.4 7.6 8 2 0
2020 2.7 2.7 3 0 0
2019 5.3 5.3 4 2 0
2018 5.9 5.9 7 0 0
2017 8.0 7.1 9 0 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

491110 · IN · Valparaiso

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 122 employers in Valparaiso, 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 ORMOND BEACH_1376303 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WANAMAKER_1436242 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ROCK HILL_1379612 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LYNBROOK_1371224 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2681_5131 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Wayne Corporate 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precision Plastics of Indiana, Inc. 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brinco Manufacturing Inc. 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Porter Hospital LLC 1,509 FTE
CITY-NEAR PORTER REGIONAL HOSPITAL 1,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR Opportunity Enterprises, Inc. 635 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Valparaiso 411 FTE
NAT-TCR 382982-Geneva Po 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 201180-Cadiz Po 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 567585-Mil-Shorewood Br 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 474873-Leb-Southside Carrier Anx 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 250690-Bay City Po 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE 189354-Waterloo P&Df 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE 467862-Sio-Southwest Anx 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE 161595-Chi-Wicker Park Sta 123 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.