Vending Machine Operators · Indiana

Fort Wayne, in Branch

Fort Wayne, IN · ~75 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fort Wayne, in Branch runs at 275% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vending Machine Operators workplace, earning a grade F.

Fort Wayne, in Branch: 8.3 TCR = 275% of Vending Machine Operators BLS 3.0 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fort Wayne, in Branch safety composite

Fort Wayne, in Branch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Fort Wayne, in Branch: 8.3 → 10.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2024

Fort Wayne, in Branch's TCR rose 2.2 from 8.3 in 2016 to 10.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Fort Wayne, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 275% of ind

  • DART 10.5 DART
  • RANK #150/168
  • PHOTO SODEXO AT UT TYLER C…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SODEXO AT UT TYLER CHICK FIL A SU (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fort Wayne, in Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fort Wayne, in Branch averages 8.3 TCR (275% of the Vending Machine Operators BLS benchmark).

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

Fort Wayne, in Branch TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2023=6 · 2024=10.5 · BLS 3.0

Where Fort Wayne, in Branch falls in its industry

6,952 Vending Machine Operators establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #150 safest of 168 Vending Machine Operators employers in Indiana.

Fort Wayne, in Branch (75 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Fort Wayne, in Branch
Fort Wayne, in Branch (75 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Fort Wayne, in Branch has more employees than the Vending Machine Operators median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 10.5 10.5 8 0 0
2023 6.0 3.0 4 0 0
2016 8.3 8.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IN · Fort Wayne

6,952 Vending Machine Operators employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 634 employers in Fort Wayne, 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 SODEXO AT UT TYLER CHICK FIL A SU 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DUVAL-NSC-NUTRITION 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT MARQUETTE UNIV SCHROEDER HALL 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 500275200 SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS COLLEGE 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - FB Culley 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graber Crews 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precision Wall Systems, Inc. 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Memorial Hospital 6,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview North Hospital 4,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Corporate Office 3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shambaugh & Son LP 3,072 FTE
NAT-TCR Grand Prairie Foods 1509 Facility 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Old Town Concrete Plant 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TPI Carolina 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincoln Middle School 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rochester, Ny Branch 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town Hall 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE KTP Charlotte 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canby 75 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, 2016. 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.