Vocational rehabilitation or habilitation services (e.g., job counseling, job training, work experience) · Indiana

Northwest Indiana ARC

Gary, IN · ~44 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northwest Indiana ARC runs at 225% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vocational rehabilitation or habilitation services (e.g., job counseling, job training, work experience) workplace, earning a grade F.

Northwest Indiana ARC: 8.5 TCR = 225% of Vocational rehabilitation or habilitation services (e.g., job counseling, job training, work experience) BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwest Indiana ARC safety composite

Northwest Indiana ARC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Northwest Indiana ARC: 4.7 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 16.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2019

Northwest Indiana ARC's TCR rose 0.8 from 4.7 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 16.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624310 · Gary, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 225% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #41/49
  • PHOTO Arc Broward- BARC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arc Broward- BARC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northwest Indiana ARC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwest Indiana ARC averages 8.5 TCR (225% of the Vocational rehabilitation or habilitation services (e.g., job counseling, job training, work experience) BLS benchmark).

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

Northwest Indiana ARC TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=16 · 2018=8 · 2019=5.5 · BLS 3.8

Where Northwest Indiana ARC falls in its industry

1,455 Vocational rehabilitation or h establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 49 Vocational rehabilitation or h employers in Indiana.

Northwest Indiana ARC (44 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Northwest Indiana ARC
Northwest Indiana ARC (44 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Northwest Indiana ARC has fewer employees than the Vocational rehabilitation or habilitatio median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2019 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2018 8.0 4.0 2 0 0
2017 16.0 5.3 3 0 0
2016 4.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624310 · IN · Gary

1,455 Vocational rehabilitation or habilitation services (e.g., job counseling, job training, work experience) 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 Arc Broward- BARC 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR WorkAbilities 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodwill Garfield Store 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Group Supported Employment Program 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2307-Whitestown, IN (Monsanto Co.) 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE RushShelby Energy 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE OCM Engineering, LLC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michels Power Inc-IN-Rolling Prairie 44 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 6962-Swy 0025 0747 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 3213 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Grocers # 101 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Texas JP 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ADCO International Plastics 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wesco Cerritos, Ca 7890 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adrian Steel of Maryland, Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corchran, Inc. 44 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.