Ice, dry, manufacturing · Indiana

East Chicago

East Chicago, IN · ~43 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

East Chicago runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ice, dry, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

East Chicago: 3.5 TCR = 105% of Ice, dry, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

East Chicago safety composite

East Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−7.6

2016→2024

East Chicago injury rate improved

East Chicago's TCR fell 7.6 from 10.8 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.8 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325120 · East Chicago, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 105% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #13/19
  • PHOTO Brookhaven Dry Ice P…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brookhaven Dry Ice Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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East Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows East Chicago averages 3.5 TCR (105% of the Ice, dry, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

East Chicago TCR series: 2016=10.8 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where East Chicago falls in its industry

295 Ice, dry, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 19 Ice, dry, manufacturing employers in Indiana.

East Chicago (43 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 020406080100120 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate East Chicago
East Chicago (43 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

East Chicago has more employees than the Ice, dry, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 3.3 1.6 2 0 0
2023 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.2 1.6 2 0 0
2021 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2020 6.2 1.5 4 0 0
2019 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2016 10.8 5.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325120 · IN · East Chicago

295 Ice, dry, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 69 employers in East Chicago, 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 Brookhaven Dry Ice Plant 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Curtis Bay 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMC Materials EC, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linde - Hartford 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Fork Farms 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics IN Hatchery 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred Int'l Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kosciusko REMC 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arcelormittal Indiana Harbor 3,844 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland-Cliffs - Indiana Harbor 3,192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ameristar East Chicago 1,371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ameristar Casino and Hotel East Chicago 1,155 FTE
NAT-TCR Excel Garden - Grand Prairie 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fulton 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Harman International - El Paso 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DC101 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE MGC Advanced Polymers, Inc. 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deprocessing Yard 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Engel Diversified Ind., Inc. 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.M. Canty, Inc. 43 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.