Casinos (except casino hotels) · Indiana

Ameristar East Chicago

East Chicago, IN · ~1,371 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ameristar East Chicago runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Casinos (except casino hotels) workplace, earning a grade B.

Ameristar East Chicago: 1.6 TCR = 53% of Casinos (except casino hotels) BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ameristar East Chicago safety composite

Ameristar East Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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)
B 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Ameristar East Chicago held a steady TCR band

Ameristar East Chicago's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.5 in 2017 to 1.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.5 · 2019=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 713210 · East Chicago, IN AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 53% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #1/10
  • PHOTO South Philadelphia T…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~1,371 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: South Philadelphia Turf Club (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ameristar East Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ameristar East Chicago averages 1.6 TCR (53% of the Casinos (except casino hotels) BLS benchmark).

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

Ameristar East Chicago TCR series: 2017=1.5 · 2019=1.8 · BLS 3.1

Where Ameristar East Chicago falls in its industry

219 Casinos (except casino hotels) establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 10 Casinos (except casino hotels) employers in Indiana.

Ameristar East Chicago (1,371 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 337 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ameristar East Chicago
Ameristar East Chicago (1,371 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 337 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Ameristar East Chicago has more employees than the Casinos (except casino hotels) median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2019 1.8 1.6 17 0 0
2017 1.5 1.5 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

713210 · IN · East Chicago

219 Casinos (except casino hotels) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 69 employers in East Chicago, 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 South Philadelphia Turf Club 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Catfish Bend Casino 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Club Fortune Casino 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Muckleshoot Casino 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hill-Rom US Field Service 1,356 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avon Community School Corporation 1,356 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana University Health Southern Indiana Physicians, LLC 1,388 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana University Health Southern Indiana Physician 1,392 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arcelormittal Indiana Harbor 3,844 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland-Cliffs - Indiana Harbor 3,192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ameristar Casino and Hotel East Chicago 1,155 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Catherine Hospital 973 FTE
NAT-TCR Woolpert- Chesapeake 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR QSI-Russellville 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 100 ~ Waukesha Pearce Industries 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmers Co-OP 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amzl : Dho1 1,371 FTE
NAT-SIZE McCarran International Airport 1,371 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medtronic Sofamor Danek-Pyramid 1,371 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alcon Johns Creek Manufacturing 1,371 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: 2019, 2017. 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.