City and town councils · Indiana

City of Decatur

Decatur, IN · ~127 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Decatur runs at 557% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical City and town councils workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Decatur: 17.8 TCR = 557% of City and town councils BLS 3.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Decatur safety composite

City of Decatur scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

City of Decatur: 8.1 → 13.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 26.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.06× in 2024

City of Decatur's TCR rose 5.4 from 8.1 in 2016 to 13.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 26.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921120 · Decatur, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 17.8 · 557% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #15/15
  • PHOTO City of Dayton
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 109 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Dayton (0.8 TCR gap)

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City of Decatur in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Decatur averages 17.8 TCR (557% of the City and town councils BLS benchmark).

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

City of Decatur TCR series: 2016=8.1 · 2017=13.5 · 2018=26.8 · 2019=19.8 · 2020=21.3 · 2021=14.1 · 2022=19.3 · 2023=24.3 · 2024=13.5 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Decatur falls in its industry

158 City and town councils establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 15 City and town councils employers in Indiana.

City of Decatur (127 employees, TCR 17.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Decatur
City of Decatur (127 employees, TCR 17.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 5.6

City of Decatur has more employees than the City and town councils median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2024 13.5 1.1 9 3 0
2023 24.3 4.2 10 13 0
2022 19.3 6.4 18 0 0
2021 14.1 2.2 12 1 0
2020 21.3 0.0 13 5 0
2019 19.8 2.3 15 2 0
2018 26.8 7.0 18 5 0
2017 13.5 4.9 9 2 0
2016 8.1 0.0 5 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921120 · IN · Decatur

158 City and town councils employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 32 employers in Decatur, 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 City of Dayton 18.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Farmersville 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Colma 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of LaGrange 19.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mel-Kay Electric Company Inc. 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louis Dreyfus Company - Claypool 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colbert Packaging Corporation - Elkhart 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE LSC Communications Digital 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR REV Recreation Group 1,001 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fleetwood RV 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adams Memorial Hospital 624 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1647 318 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0508 Shrewsbury 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0552 Oceanside 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1050 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Residential Heating and Air Conditioning Inc 17.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Westbrook Lockwood 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cs Construction, Inc. 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Headquarters 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE DALLAS-SWIT-DALLAS 127 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, 2022, 2021, 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.