Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers · Indiana

Patson Inc.- Gary

Gary, IN · ~78 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Patson Inc.- Gary runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Patson Inc.- Gary: 2.0 TCR = 93% of Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Patson Inc.- Gary safety composite

Patson Inc.- Gary scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

Patson Inc.- Gary: 0.0 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.45× in 2024

Patson Inc.- Gary's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423110 · Gary, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.0 · 93% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #11/51
  • PHOTO Peterson Trucks Sant…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Peterson Trucks Santa Rosa (0.0 TCR gap)

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Patson Inc.- Gary in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Patson Inc.- Gary averages 2.0 TCR (93% of the Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Patson Inc.- Gary TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=4 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Patson Inc.- Gary falls in its industry

1,333 Trucks, road, merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 51 Trucks, road, merchant wholesa employers in Indiana.

Patson Inc.- Gary (78 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Patson Inc.- Gary
Patson Inc.- Gary (78 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Patson Inc.- Gary has more employees than the Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 1.9 0.0 2 0 0
2022 4.2 2.1 4 0 0
2021 4.0 4.0 3 0 0
2020 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2019 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2018 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · IN · Gary

1,333 Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers 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 Peterson Trucks Santa Rosa 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Worldwide Equipment - Middlesboro 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 29 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ELRAC, LLC 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE White County Egg Farm 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Astbury Water Technology, Inc. 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4391_9545 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kleenco Maintenance & Construction, Inc. 78 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 Green Leaf Associates 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kings Mountain (FSFT) 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Home 2 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ahern Fond du Lac - Corporate 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jacksonville (BAMG) 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt Retail Specialties, LLC Conyers, GA 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ward Vessel And Exchanger 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marshalltown Oper Facility 78 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.