Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding · Indiana

Community Surgery Center Howard

Kokomo, IN · ~55 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Community Surgery Center Howard runs at 214% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding workplace, earning a grade F.

Community Surgery Center Howard: 8.1 TCR = 214% of Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Community Surgery Center Howard safety composite

Community Surgery Center Howard scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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 8.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Community Surgery Center Howard: 0.0 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 17.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.3× in 2023

Community Surgery Center Howard's TCR rose 7.4 from 0.0 in 2021 to 7.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 17.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621493 · Kokomo, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 214% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO North Memorial Ambul…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Memorial Ambulatory Surgery Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Community Surgery Center Howard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Community Surgery Center Howard averages 8.1 TCR (214% of the Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding BLS benchmark).

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

Community Surgery Center Howard TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=17 · 2023=7.4 · BLS 3.8

Where Community Surgery Center Howard falls in its industry

498 Ambulatory surgical centers an establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 14 Ambulatory surgical centers an employers in Indiana.

Community Surgery Center Howard (55 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Community Surgery Center Howard
Community Surgery Center Howard (55 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Community Surgery Center Howard has more employees than the Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2023 7.4 2.5 3 0 0
2022 17.0 2.4 7 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621493 · IN · Kokomo

498 Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 145 employers in Kokomo, 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 North Memorial Ambulatory Surgery Center 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richmond Medical Commons 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Animas Surgical Hospital 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heartland 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Warren Dairy 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE 392-NiSource-NIE Safety Training 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Citizens Energy Group-Steam 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE John L. Maxwell Inc 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kokomo Transmission Plant 3,289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fiat Chrysler Automobiles- Indiana Transmission Plant 1 1,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana Transmission Plant 1 1,545 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kokomo Casting Plant 1,267 FTE
NAT-TCR Pacific Seafood-Kodiak, LLC dba Island Fish Co. 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR San Francisco Zoo & Gardens 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cherokee Specialty Care 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Farm & Fleet of Holland 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Anthony's Hospice 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE bioMerieux Salt Lake City Murray 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nam Dae Mun Farmers Market Lilburn 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE RoofMaster Maintenance & Roofing, Inc 55 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.