Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Indiana

Schererville Police Department

Schererville, IN · ~80 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Schererville Police Department runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade C.

Schererville Police Department: 3.6 TCR = 113% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Schererville Police Department safety composite

Schererville Police Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Schererville Police Department: 2.9 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.59× in 2024

Schererville Police Department's TCR rose 6.5 from 2.9 in 2021 to 9.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Schererville, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 113% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK #1/12
  • PHOTO Police Department
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Schererville Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Schererville Police Department averages 3.6 TCR (113% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

Schererville Police Department TCR series: 2021=2.9 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=9.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Schererville Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

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 12 Police departments (except Ame employers in Indiana.

Schererville Police Department (80 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Schererville Police Department
Schererville Police Department (80 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Schererville Police Department has fewer employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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
2024 9.4 9.4 6 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2021 2.9 2.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IN · Schererville

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 39 employers in Schererville, 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 Police Department 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheriff's Office 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office of Field Operations - Buffalo 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MTPD Auth Place 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 180-NiSource-Crown Point IN-Operating HQ 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE XL Industrial Services, Inc. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Directline Communications Inc. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elbrecht Investments 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schererville 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1576 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1576 243 FTE
CITY-NEAR Strack and Van Til Schererville 206 FTE
NAT-TCR CVF Motorsports Inc 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR MSF Electric, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Flowers Baking Company of Thomasville LLC, Thomasville Bakery 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 10062 Tenley Town 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Precise Food Ingredients, Inc. 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE QPC - Carrollton 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE COMTRAN 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisa Care Center LLC 80 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.