Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) · Indiana

City of Valparaiso

Valparaiso, IN · ~411 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Valparaiso runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Valparaiso: 6.0 TCR = 188% of Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Valparaiso safety composite

City of Valparaiso scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Rising injury rate

City of Valparaiso: 3.4 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2024

City of Valparaiso's TCR rose 5.3 from 3.4 in 2023 to 8.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Valparaiso, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 188% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #16/33
  • PHOTO Steuben County Gover…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~411 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Steuben County Government - Community Corrections (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Valparaiso in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Valparaiso averages 6.0 TCR (188% of the Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) BLS benchmark).

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

City of Valparaiso TCR series: 2023=3.4 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Valparaiso falls in its industry

1,010 Executive offices, federal, st establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 33 Executive offices, federal, st employers in Indiana.

City of Valparaiso (411 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Valparaiso
City of Valparaiso (411 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Valparaiso has more employees than the Executive offices, federal, state, and l median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 8.6 4.5 22 5 0
2023 3.4 0.3 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · IN · Valparaiso

1,010 Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) 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 Steuben County Government - Community Corrections 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Lake in the Hills 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Sartell 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Circle Pines 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE DILLING GROUP INC 411 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hitachi Astemo Greenfield 411 FTE
STATE-SIZE CAITO FOODS SERVICE CENTER 411 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Office 410 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 1479 381 FTE
NAT-TCR 297 N Earl Rudder Bryan Tx 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Waste Industries New Bern 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR USF Fabrication, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 55376 Georgia Tech 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Laguna Beach 411 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charles T. Sitrin Health Care Center 411 FTE
NAT-SIZE KS Energy Services (New Berlin) 411 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garden Spot Village 411 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. 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.