Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers · Indiana

923 Val78

Lowell, IN · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

923 Val78 runs at 392% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers workplace, earning a grade F.

923 Val78: 13.3 TCR = 392% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

923 Val78 safety composite

923 Val78 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

923 Val78: 12.8 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2024

923 Val78's TCR rose 1.0 from 12.8 in 2022 to 13.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Lowell, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.3 · 392% of ind

  • DART 13.8 DART
  • RANK #405/416
  • PHOTO 69030001-17 CARDENAS…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 69030001-17 CARDENAS MARKETS 17 (0.0 TCR gap)

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923 Val78 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 923 Val78 averages 13.3 TCR (392% of the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers BLS benchmark).

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

923 Val78 TCR series: 2022=12.8 · 2024=13.8 · BLS 3.4

Where 923 Val78 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #405 safest of 416 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Indiana.

923 Val78 (21 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 923 Val78
923 Val78 (21 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

923 Val78 has fewer employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 13.8 13.8 2 0 0
2022 12.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IN · Lowell

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 14 employers in Lowell, 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 69030001-17 CARDENAS MARKETS 17 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00724 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-01530 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-03011 13.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastside Dairy, LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deer Ridge 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana Sow Farm 5 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana Sow Farm 3 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell Bakery 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Strack and Van Til Lowell 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8755 Lowell SVT 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cedar Creek Health Campus 98 FTE
NAT-TCR Nursery 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Solheim Senior Community 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Visalia Distribution Center 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wayak - Yakima 13.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 935 Ola69 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 890 Tul75 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2992 Tul118 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2671 Mor59 21 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, 2022. 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.