Discount Department Stores · Indiana

1902 - South Bend

South Bend, IN · ~154 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1902 - South Bend runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

1902 - South Bend: 4.9 TCR = 143% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1902 - South Bend safety composite

1902 - South Bend scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

1902 - South Bend: 4.1 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

1902 - South Bend's TCR rose 1.7 from 4.1 in 2019 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · South Bend, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 143% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #52/80
  • PHOTO 1103 - Newport News
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~154 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1103 - Newport News (0.0 TCR gap)

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1902 - South Bend in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1902 - South Bend averages 4.9 TCR (143% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1902 - South Bend TCR series: 2019=4.1 · 2021=5 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 3.4

Where 1902 - South Bend falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 80 Discount Department Stores employers in Indiana.

1902 - South Bend (154 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1902 - South Bend
1902 - South Bend (154 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1902 - South Bend has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 5.8 5.8 4 0 0
2023 2.8 1.4 2 0 0
2022 6.5 6.5 1 4 0
2021 5.0 2.5 4 0 0
2019 4.1 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · IN · South Bend

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 318 employers in South Bend, 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 1103 - Newport News 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1109 - Mays Landing 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 1574 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 1805 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE SFR 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dean - Decatur IN (Suiza) 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scottsburg 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldshield 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital South Bend 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph County 1,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fourwinds Casino South Bend 1,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honeywell IN08 810 FTE
NAT-TCR 1103 - Newport News 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1109 - Mays Landing 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Supermercados Morelos - La Union 5 LLC 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Long Beach CA 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1850 - Addison 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2196 - Miami Lakes 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1452 - Florence 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1213 - Lemont 154 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, 2019. 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.