Home Centers · Indiana

Portage in - 3228

Portage, IN · ~173 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Portage in - 3228 runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home Centers workplace, earning a grade D.

Portage in - 3228: 6.4 TCR = 189% of Home Centers BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Portage in - 3228 safety composite

Portage in - 3228 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.4

2016→2024

Portage in - 3228 injury rate improved

Portage in - 3228's TCR fell 2.4 from 7.5 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.5 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=7.0 · 2020=7.0 · 2021=5.6 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Portage, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 189% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #111/163
  • PHOTO 2388 LOWE S OF SANFO…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 70 inj
  • SIZE ~173 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2388 LOWE S OF SANFORD ME (0.0 TCR gap)

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Portage in - 3228 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Portage in - 3228 averages 6.4 TCR (189% of the Home Centers BLS benchmark).

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

Portage in - 3228 TCR series: 2016=7.5 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=7 · 2020=7 · 2021=5.6 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.4

Where Portage in - 3228 falls in its industry

6,309 Home Centers establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #111 safest of 163 Home Centers employers in Indiana.

Portage in - 3228 (173 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Portage in - 3228
Portage in - 3228 (173 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Portage in - 3228 has more employees than the Home Centers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 5.0 0.8 6 0 0
2023 3.3 3.3 4 0 0
2022 7.5 3.0 10 0 0
2021 5.6 0.7 8 0 0
2020 7.0 3.5 10 0 0
2019 7.0 0.7 10 0 0
2018 8.6 2.1 12 0 0
2016 7.5 0.8 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · IN · Portage

6,309 Home Centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 87 employers in Portage, 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 2388 LOWE S OF SANFORD ME 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Von Tobel Corporation- Schererville 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1675 LOWE S OF DICKSON TN 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2759 GAYLORD 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corporate Office 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Safway Services, LLC - Merrillville 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ken's Foods 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avery Dennison 173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midwest Plant 889 FTE
CITY-NEAR Solid Platforms, Inc. 746 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2544 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2544 404 FTE
NAT-TCR Billings CS Horizon 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bill Doran LLC - San Antonio 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bowie State University Board Plan 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cloute, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Racine Wi - 3043 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clio Mi - 3241 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE 310-DC310 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE ASC - Atlanta 173 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, 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.