Employer · Indiana

S03973 - WM of Northwest Indiana

Portage, IN · ~60 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

S03973 - WM of Northwest Indiana runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

S03973 - WM of Northwest Indiana: 4.9 TCR = 189% of industry BLS 2.6 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

S03973 - WM of Northwest Indiana safety composite

S03973 - WM of Northwest Indiana scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

S03973 - WM of Northwest Indiana: 0.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 20.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.4× in 2021

S03973 - WM of Northwest Indiana's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 20.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Portage, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 189% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #34/71
  • PHOTO S04060 - WM of TN - …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S04060 - WM of TN - Knoxville (0.0 TCR gap)

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S03973 - WM of Northwest Indiana in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows S03973 - WM of Northwest Indiana averages 4.9 TCR (189% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

S03973 - WM of Northwest Indiana TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.4 · 2018=20.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=4 · BLS 2.6

Where S03973 - WM of Northwest Indiana falls in its industry

2,322 industry establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 71 industry employers in Indiana.

S03973 - WM of Northwest Indiana (60 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate S03973 - WM of Northwest Indiana
S03973 - WM of Northwest Indiana (60 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

S03973 - WM of Northwest Indiana has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2020 3.7 1.9 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 20.4 0.0 1 12 0
2017 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IN · Portage

2,322 industry 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 S04060 - WM of TN - Knoxville 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cascade Disposal 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic Services 4259 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04196 - WM of Northern Colorado - Fort Collins 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE River View Farms Inc 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advantix Development Corporation 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Duke Energy - Edwardsport 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winco Construction Company 60 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 Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-40430) 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Benedictine Health Center of Minneapolis 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunshine State Plumbing Haines St 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Eaton Street Lumber LLC 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nampa Store 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Echter's 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chagrin Valley Paving, Inc. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chemical Transportation, Inc. 60 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: 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.