Ice cream specialties manufacturing · Indiana

Ice Cream Specialties

Lafayette, IN · ~148 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ice Cream Specialties runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ice cream specialties manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ice Cream Specialties: 5.5 TCR = 167% of Ice cream specialties manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ice Cream Specialties safety composite

Ice Cream Specialties scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ice Cream Specialties: 4.7 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.43× in 2024

Ice Cream Specialties's TCR rose 5.1 from 4.7 in 2016 to 9.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 167% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Portland YoCream
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~148 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Portland YoCream (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ice Cream Specialties in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ice Cream Specialties averages 5.5 TCR (167% of the Ice cream specialties manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ice Cream Specialties TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=6 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=9.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ice Cream Specialties falls in its industry

111 Ice cream specialties manufact establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #3 safest of 4 Ice cream specialties manufact employers in Indiana.

Ice Cream Specialties (148 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Ice Cream Specialties
Ice Cream Specialties (148 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Ice Cream Specialties has more employees than the Ice cream specialties 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
2024 9.8 7.9 8 2 0
2023 7.5 4.8 9 2 0
2021 6.0 4.8 10 0 0
2020 5.7 2.6 5 6 0
2019 2.6 1.3 4 0 0
2018 2.2 1.6 2 2 0
2016 4.7 3.8 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311520 · IN · Lafayette

111 Ice cream specialties manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 205 employers in Lafayette, 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 Portland YoCream 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFA ICE CREAM - TOLEDO OH 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream Company, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunny Florida Dairy 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wastewater Division 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Refresco North America 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE GDC 2 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Myers Industries/Elkhart Plastics 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. 6,222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lafayette Operations 3,025 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wabash Lafayette North 2,452 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arnett Hospital 2,070 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 080 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Willow Fork Country Club 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 08022-08-08-LAKEWOOD 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 397 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 436 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anchor Hocking Distribution Center 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agriculture Weights Measures 148 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.