Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire · Illinois

Lake Cable of Indiana LLC - Valpo

Valparaiso, IL · ~332 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lake Cable of Indiana LLC - Valpo runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade D.

Lake Cable of Indiana LLC - Valpo: 6.3 TCR = 189% of Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake Cable of Indiana LLC - Valpo safety composite

Lake Cable of Indiana LLC - Valpo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Lake Cable of Indiana LLC - Valpo held a steady TCR band

Lake Cable of Indiana LLC - Valpo's TCR held near 0.1 from 6.3 in 2023 to 6.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.3 · 2024=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · Valparaiso, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 189% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #16/19
  • PHOTO Midmark - Leesburg
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~332 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midmark - Leesburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lake Cable of Indiana LLC - Valpo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake Cable of Indiana LLC - Valpo averages 6.3 TCR (189% of the Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

Lake Cable of Indiana LLC - Valpo TCR series: 2023=6.3 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Lake Cable of Indiana LLC - Valpo falls in its industry

270 Cable, noninsulated wire, made establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 19 Cable, noninsulated wire, made employers in Illinois.

Lake Cable of Indiana LLC - Valpo (332 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Lake Cable of Indiana LLC - Valpo
Lake Cable of Indiana LLC - Valpo (332 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Lake Cable of Indiana LLC - Valpo has more employees than the Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purc median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 6.2 5.5 18 0 0
2023 6.3 5.9 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · IL · Valparaiso

270 Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 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 Midmark - Leesburg 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Archer Wire International Bedford Park 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indiana Materials Processing 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perfection Chain Products, Inc 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rich Products Crest Hill 332 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springfield Electric Supply Company 332 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anixter- Alsip 332 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1814 332 FTE
NAT-TCR Imperial CFS, Inc 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR El Centro 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Biomass One 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Trenton Group Inc. d/b/a Hanover Concrete Co. 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kilgore Flares Co. LLC 332 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scaled Composites 332 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Foods Allentown 332 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kendrick Plastics 332 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. 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.