Employer · Indiana

473 - Valparaiso

Valparaiso, IN · ~114 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

473 - Valparaiso runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

473 - Valparaiso: 2.9 TCR = 84% of industry BLS 3.4 · 6y 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Rising injury rate

473 - Valparaiso: 1.7 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

473 - Valparaiso's TCR rose 0.7 from 1.7 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 84% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #44/78
  • PHOTO 71102
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 71102 (0.0 TCR gap)

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473 - Valparaiso in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 473 - Valparaiso averages 2.9 TCR (84% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

473 - Valparaiso TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=5.2 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=2.4 · 2022=2.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 473 - Valparaiso falls in its industry

2,917 industry establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 78 industry employers in Indiana.

473 - Valparaiso (114 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 473 - Valparaiso
473 - Valparaiso (114 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

473 - Valparaiso has more employees than the industry 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
2022 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2019 3.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2017 5.2 1.7 3 0 0
2016 1.7 1.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · IN · Valparaiso

2,917 industry 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 71102 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 71539 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 434 Fenton 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1411 - Hudson 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Indiana American Water - Northwest 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tranco Industrial Services, Inc. 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indianna Foundation Services Indianapolis 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laux Arnold Inc 114 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 1411 - Hudson 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Maquoketa Valley Electric Cooperative 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR GAT-ODFL 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CD Investors, LLC/Production Facility 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 524 - Hendersonville 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE 415 - SW Denver 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE 612 - Garner 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE 767 - Mansfield-MA 114 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.