Child welfare services · Indiana

DCS - Lawrence Co

Bedford, IN · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DCS - Lawrence Co runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Child welfare services workplace, earning a grade A.

DCS - Lawrence Co: 1.6 TCR = 41% of Child welfare services BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DCS - Lawrence Co safety composite

DCS - Lawrence Co scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

DCS - Lawrence Co: 0.0 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

DCS - Lawrence Co's TCR rose 3.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 3.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624110 · Bedford, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 41% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/35
  • PHOTO Indiana Department o…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Indiana Department of Child Services - Lawrence County (0.0 TCR gap)

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DCS - Lawrence Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DCS - Lawrence Co averages 1.6 TCR (41% of the Child welfare services BLS benchmark).

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

DCS - Lawrence Co TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.8

Where DCS - Lawrence Co falls in its industry

328 Child welfare services establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

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 35 Child welfare services employers in Indiana.

DCS - Lawrence Co (33 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate DCS - Lawrence Co
DCS - Lawrence Co (33 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.3

DCS - Lawrence Co has fewer employees than the Child welfare services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624110 · IN · Bedford

328 Child welfare services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 53 employers in Bedford, 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 Indiana Department of Child Services - Lawrence County 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Anaheim Youth Center 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Child Support Enforcement 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR State of Indiana - Madison County - DCS 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE IN-NPDI-INDIANA 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newberry Farms, LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belvarken A.I. Center 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE AES 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Bedford 818 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1026 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1026 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bedford Hospital 361 FTE
NAT-TCR Holistic Patient Wellness Group Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Downes Construction Company 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Systems Tech, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Diamond & Thiel Construction Company Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Franklin Shop 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Abbott Machine company 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE River Vista Farms LLC 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 156 33 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.