Food Service Contractors · Indiana

School City of East Chicago

East Chicago, IN · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

School City of East Chicago runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Food Service Contractors workplace, earning a grade B.

School City of East Chicago: 1.8 TCR = 59% of Food Service Contractors BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

School City of East Chicago safety composite

School City of East Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.6

2023→2024

School City of East Chicago injury rate improved

School City of East Chicago's TCR fell 3.6 from 3.6 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · East Chicago, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 59% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #47/168
  • PHOTO FS-St. Vincent's Cla…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FS-St. Vincent's Clay County Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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School City of East Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows School City of East Chicago averages 1.8 TCR (59% of the Food Service Contractors BLS benchmark).

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

School City of East Chicago TCR series: 2023=3.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.0

Where School City of East Chicago falls in its industry

6,952 Food Service Contractors establishments

Safer than 78% 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 #47 safest of 168 Food Service Contractors employers in Indiana.

School City of East Chicago (49 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 School City of East Chicago
School City of East Chicago (49 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

School City of East Chicago has more employees than the Food Service Contractors median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IN · East Chicago

6,952 Food Service Contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 69 employers in East Chicago, 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 FS-St. Vincent's Clay County Hospital 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT UNIV OF TULSA CHICK FIL A 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR EMU-COMMONS 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 500436900 WHEATON COLLEGE RESIDENTIAL CHASE 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Freeland Dairy 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hoosier Pride Farms, LLC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Windfall Multi-Crop Research Center 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Rush1 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arcelormittal Indiana Harbor 3,844 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland-Cliffs - Indiana Harbor 3,192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ameristar East Chicago 1,371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ameristar Casino and Hotel East Chicago 1,155 FTE
NAT-TCR Lewisberry PA TSDF 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR H6div-Ph-H6 Division 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Scotts Company - Channahon 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Scotts Company - Chester 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE BBN Label and screen 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE James R. Fincher Timber Co. 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avalon Landscapes 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spencer Manufacturing, Inc. 49 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.