Water treatment and distribution · Indiana

Indiana American Water - Northwest

Name: Indiana American Water - Northwest Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Gary, IN · ~114 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.3
Avg TCR: 1.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Indiana American Water - Northwest runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade A.

Indiana American Water - Northwest: 0.3 TCR = 25% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Indiana American Water - Northwest safety composite

Indiana American Water - Northwest scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Indiana American Water - Northwest: 0.0 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 0.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Indiana American Water - Northwest's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Gary, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 25% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #1/12
PHOTO 6271-508
BOOK 3y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6271-508 (0.0 TCR gap)

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0.3
6271-508

0.3
Portland Water

0.3
Clearwater Res

0.3
Palo Verde Gen

0.3

What this shows Indiana American Water - Northwest averages 0.3 TCR (25% of the Water treatment and distribution BLS benchmark).

Indiana American Water - Northwest TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0.9 · BLS 1.2

Where Indiana American Water - Northwest falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 12 Water treatment and distributi employers in Indiana.

Indiana American Water - Northwest (114 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Indiana American Water - Northwest has more employees than the Water treatment and distribution median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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	Injuries
2023	0.9	1
2022	0.0	0
2021	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · IN · Gary

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 107 employers in Gary, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	6271-508	FT. BRAGG, NC	0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Portland Water Bureau Engineering	PORTLAND, OR	0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Clearwater Resources LLC	LUBBOCK, TX	0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Palo Verde Generating Station- Water Resources Facility	TONOPAH, AZ	0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Tranco Industrial Services, Inc.	BURNS HARBOR	114 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Indianna Foundation Services Indianapolis	WHITELAND	114 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Laux Arnold Inc	FORT WAYNE	114 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Automated Logic Controls (Indianapolis)	INDIANAPOLIS	114 FTE
CITY-NEAR	USS Gary Works - Plant	Gary	4,744 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Gary Works	Gary	3,767 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HRNI Holdings, LLC	Gary	1,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR	AMZL : DIN2	Gary	569 FTE
NAT-TCR	Parkway Services Group LLC	Lafayette, LA	0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Jan's Construction Company, Inc.	Iowa, LA	0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Chevron Salt Lake Refinery	North Salt Lake, UT	0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Avanti's of Pekin	Pekin, IL	0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Laura Sprague School	Lincolnshire, IL	114 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fleet Engineers	Muskegon, MI	114 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Stevens Transportation Inc.	Bakersfield, CA	114 FTE
NAT-SIZE	BEST WAY DISPOSAL dba ADVANCE DISPOSAL	Hesperia, CA	114 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.