Employer · Indiana

Purdue U

Hammond, IN · ~18 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Purdue U runs at 293% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Purdue U: 8.8 TCR = 293% of industry BLS 3.0 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Purdue U safety composite

Purdue U scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Purdue U: 15.6 → 19.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 19.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Purdue U's TCR rose 3.9 from 15.6 in 2018 to 19.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Hammond, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 293% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #152/168
  • PHOTO 000019448 ELIZABETH …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 000019448 ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Purdue U in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Purdue U averages 8.8 TCR (293% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Purdue U TCR series: 2018=15.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=19.5 · BLS 3.0

Where Purdue U falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #152 safest of 168 industry employers in Indiana.

Purdue U (18 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 Purdue U
Purdue U (18 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Purdue U has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2021 19.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 15.6 15.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IN · Hammond

6,952 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 136 employers in Hammond, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 000019448 ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT AMEX CENTURION DEN CLEANING 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR M1628 LAC+USC Healt 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 120681300 JANELIA RESEARCH CAMPUS 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE RVF Washington 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Madison (Pwr Del-IN) 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE 745-NiSource-Peru IN-Operating HQ 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sterling Construction Corporation 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR HORSESHOE HAMMOND 1,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lear Corporation - Hammond 920 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franciscan Health Hammond 535 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2818 419 FTE
NAT-TCR Modern Forge Tennessee LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Republic Services of Davie 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 879 Oakbrook Mall 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR FMBrown's Sons Inc-flour 8.8 TCR

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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.