Detention centers · Indiana

Howard County Kinsey Youth Center

Kokomo, IN · ~364 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howard County Kinsey Youth Center runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Detention centers workplace, earning a grade C.

Howard County Kinsey Youth Center: 2.6 TCR = 82% of Detention centers BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howard County Kinsey Youth Center safety composite

Howard County Kinsey Youth Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−3.9

2017→2024

Howard County Kinsey Youth Center injury rate improved

Howard County Kinsey Youth Center's TCR fell 3.9 from 4.3 in 2017 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.3 · 2018=9.0 · 2019=1.4 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922140 · Kokomo, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 82% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK P79
  • PHOTO FCI Sheridan
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~364 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FCI Sheridan (0.0 TCR gap)

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Howard County Kinsey Youth Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howard County Kinsey Youth Center averages 2.6 TCR (82% of the Detention centers BLS benchmark).

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

Howard County Kinsey Youth Center TCR series: 2017=4.3 · 2018=9 · 2019=1.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Howard County Kinsey Youth Center falls in its industry

482 Detention centers establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Howard County Kinsey Youth Center (364 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 05001,0001,500 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Howard County Kinsey Youth Center
Howard County Kinsey Youth Center (364 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Howard County Kinsey Youth Center has more employees than the Detention centers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2024 0.4 0.4 2 0 0
2023 0.5 0.5 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.4 0.7 8 0 0
2018 9.0 7.5 6 0 0
2017 4.3 1.7 2 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922140 · IN · Kokomo

482 Detention centers 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 FCI Sheridan 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dept. of Corrections (15) 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dept. of Corrections (27) 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bedford Adult Detention Center 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jasper Operations - Decora 364 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1557 364 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indianapolis Facility 363 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1026 363 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 Gallo Center for the Arts 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hornady Mfg Co 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bemidji 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Greer Commission of Public Works 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plymouth 364 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kissick Construction 364 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denier Electric 364 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corval Group 364 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.