Confectioner's powdered sugar manufacturing · Indiana

Indiana Sugars

Gary, IN · ~134 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Indiana Sugars runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Confectioner's powdered sugar manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Indiana Sugars: 3.7 TCR = 89% of Confectioner's powdered sugar manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Indiana Sugars safety composite

Indiana Sugars scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 56% 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

−4.5

2016→2024

Indiana Sugars injury rate improved

Indiana Sugars's TCR fell 4.5 from 5.9 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.9 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=5.4 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311314 · Gary, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 89% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK P40
  • PHOTO ASR Group Cleveland
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~134 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ASR Group Cleveland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Indiana Sugars in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Indiana Sugars averages 3.7 TCR (89% of the Confectioner's powdered sugar manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Indiana Sugars TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=5.4 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 4.2

Where Indiana Sugars falls in its industry

57 Confectioner's powdered sugar establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Indiana Sugars (134 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Indiana Sugars
Indiana Sugars (134 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Indiana Sugars has fewer employees than the Confectioner's powdered sugar manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2023 5.4 5.4 5 0 0
2022 2.2 1.6 4 0 0
2016 5.9 3.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311314 · IN · Gary

57 Confectioner's powdered sugar manufacturing 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR ASR Group Cleveland 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Sugar Refining, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sterling Sugars, LLC 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE International Paper - Butler Tri Wall 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Royer 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ardagh Metal Packaging - Valparaiso 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lensing Wholesale Inc 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR USS Gary Works - Plant 4,744 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gary Works 3,767 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRNI Holdings, LLC 1,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DIN2 569 FTE
NAT-TCR Dalton 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CAMC Labworks 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR kensington HPP, Inc 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tex-Mix San Antonio 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Main Office 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Broadway Elder Living & Rehabilitation 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sunbright Services 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0770 Pinecrest 134 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, 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.