Department Store · Indiana

473 Valparaiso

Name: 473 Valparaiso Workplace Safety Data
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Valparaiso, IN · ~68 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.8
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

473 Valparaiso runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Department Store workplace, earning a grade C.

473 Valparaiso: 2.8 TCR = 81% of Department Store BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

473 Valparaiso safety composite

473 Valparaiso scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

473 Valparaiso held a steady TCR band

473 Valparaiso's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.6 in 2023 to 2.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.6 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Valparaiso, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 81% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #39/78
PHOTO 443 - Woodstock-GA
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 443 - Woodstock-GA (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.8
443 - Woodstoc

2.8
1245 - Hollywo

2.8
633 - Sarasota

2.8
837 - Farmingt

2.8

What this shows 473 Valparaiso averages 2.8 TCR (81% of the Department Store BLS benchmark).

473 Valparaiso TCR series: 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.4

Where 473 Valparaiso falls in its industry

2,917 Department Store establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 78 Department Store employers in Indiana.

473 Valparaiso (68 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

473 Valparaiso has fewer employees than the Department Store median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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	2.9	0.0	1	0	0
2023	2.6	2.6	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · IN · Valparaiso

2,917 Department Store 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	443 - Woodstock-GA	WOODSTOCK, GA	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	1245 - Hollywood	HOLLYWOOD, FL	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	633 - Sarasota	SARASOTA, FL	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	837 - Farmington Hills	FARMINGTON HILLS, MI	2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Patterson Horth, Inc.	INDIANAPOLIS	68 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Eaton Mill	EATON	68 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Indiana Plant	AURORA	68 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lawrence Building Corporation	FORT WAYNE	68 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Porter Hospital LLC	Valparaiso	1,509 FTE
CITY-NEAR	PORTER REGIONAL HOSPITAL	Valparaiso	1,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Opportunity Enterprises, Inc.	Valparaiso	635 FTE
CITY-NEAR	City of Valparaiso	Valparaiso	411 FTE
NAT-TCR	Precision Crane Service, Inc.	Windsor, CA	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hajoca 032	Raleigh, NC	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Saco	Saco, ME	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Pacific Aviation - San Francisco	San Francisco, CA	2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Lawson Trucking, LLC	Omaha, NE	68 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bsl Rye Investors LLC	Rye, NH	68 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Norotos, Inc.	Santa Ana, CA	68 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Walman Optical - Kent	Kent, WA	68 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. 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.