Industrial gases merchant wholesalers · Indiana

PDI - South Bend

South Bend, IN · ~45 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PDI - South Bend runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Industrial gases merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

PDI - South Bend: 0.4 TCR = 18% of Industrial gases merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PDI - South Bend safety composite

PDI - South Bend scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

PDI - South Bend held a steady TCR band

PDI - South Bend's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=2.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · South Bend, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/20
  • PHOTO Polytek - Kalamazoo
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Polytek - Kalamazoo (0.0 TCR gap)

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PDI - South Bend in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PDI - South Bend averages 0.4 TCR (18% of the Industrial gases merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

PDI - South Bend TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=2 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.2

Where PDI - South Bend falls in its industry

766 Industrial gases merchant whol establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

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 20 Industrial gases merchant whol employers in Indiana.

PDI - South Bend (45 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate PDI - South Bend
PDI - South Bend (45 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

PDI - South Bend has more employees than the Industrial gases merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · IN · South Bend

766 Industrial gases merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 318 employers in South Bend, 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 Polytek - Kalamazoo 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morrisville 0970 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nexeo Solutions - Willow Springs 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belton Plant 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE J Star Farms LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Windfall, IN 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Oil Field Services LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Patoka Lake Regional Water & Sewer District 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital South Bend 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph County 1,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fourwinds Casino South Bend 1,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honeywell IN08 810 FTE
NAT-TCR Oncor Distribution Services (DS/DPMO/PMDS, Streetlights, VM) 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Echo Powerline LLC 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 263 Aut - Greensboro 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brace Industrial Group 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ability One - Ft. Leavenworth 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE KCL:KC131 - KC131- West Michigan 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Antonio Biotest Plasma Center 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 45 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: 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.