Colleges, universities, and professional schools · Indiana

B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus

South Bend, IN · ~372 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus runs at 10% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Colleges, universities, and professional schools workplace, earning a grade A.

B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus: 0.1 TCR = 10% of Colleges, universities, and professional schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus safety composite

B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus held a steady TCR band

B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.3 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 0.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.3 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · South Bend, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 10% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/19
  • PHOTO Swarthmore College
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~372 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Swarthmore College (0.0 TCR gap)

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B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus averages 0.1 TCR (10% of the Colleges, universities, and professional schools BLS benchmark).

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

B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus TCR series: 2019=0.3 · 2020=0 · BLS 1.4

Where B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus falls in its industry

347 Colleges, universities, and pr establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

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 19 Colleges, universities, and pr employers in Indiana.

B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus (372 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus
B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus (372 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus has fewer employees than the Colleges, universities, and professional median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.3 0.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · IN · South Bend

347 Colleges, universities, and professional schools 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 Swarthmore College 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Central College - Faribault Campus 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana - Systems Office 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR National University 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Super ATV 372 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4417 372 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1547 372 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indy 371 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 Pharmaceutical Calibrations and Instrumentation (PCI) 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate Office - H1 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR QPS Engineering, LLC 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR NV-01 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Venice Bakery - Torrance 372 FTE
NAT-SIZE SHP Management Corp 372 FTE
NAT-SIZE TechServ Consulting & Training, LTD 372 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roseville Toyota 372 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.