ICE CREAM & FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING · Indiana

Dfa Ice Cream - Decatur in

Decatur, IN · ~136 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dfa Ice Cream - Decatur in runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical ICE CREAM & FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING workplace, earning a grade D.

Dfa Ice Cream - Decatur in: 6.5 TCR = 197% of ICE CREAM & FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dfa Ice Cream - Decatur in safety composite

Dfa Ice Cream - Decatur in scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.0

2020→2021

Dfa Ice Cream - Decatur in injury rate improved

Dfa Ice Cream - Decatur in's TCR fell 10.0 from 11.5 in 2020 to 1.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=11.5 · 2021=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311520 · Decatur, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 197% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Fieldbrook Foods
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~136 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fieldbrook Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dfa Ice Cream - Decatur in in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dfa Ice Cream - Decatur in averages 6.5 TCR (197% of the ICE CREAM & FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING BLS benchmark).

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

Dfa Ice Cream - Decatur in TCR series: 2020=11.5 · 2021=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Dfa Ice Cream - Decatur in falls in its industry

111 ICE CREAM & FROZEN DESSERT MAN establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #4 safest of 4 ICE CREAM & FROZEN DESSERT MAN employers in Indiana.

Dfa Ice Cream - Decatur in (136 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dfa Ice Cream - Decatur in
Dfa Ice Cream - Decatur in (136 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Dfa Ice Cream - Decatur in has fewer employees than the ICE CREAM & FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING 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
2021 1.5 0.7 2 0 0
2020 11.5 6.9 13 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311520 · IN · Decatur

111 ICE CREAM & FROZEN DESSERT MANUFACTURING 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 Fieldbrook Foods 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakewood (Mr. Cookieface) 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR FRIENDLY'S - WILBRAHAM PLANT 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ziegenfelder - Wheeling 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Tipton1 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Wayne Bakery 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE UFP Nappanee, LLC 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE LCI - 210 136 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 Millard Sprinkler Inc 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR UFP Dallas 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR FreshPoint Raleigh167 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CT-Residential Community Homes 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Caro - MI 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE TRIANGLE 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nature Fresh Farms 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE ShopRite of Warminster 136 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: 2021, 2020. 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.