Employer · Indiana

South Bend 127

South Bend, IN · ~80 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

South Bend 127 runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

South Bend 127: 5.8 TCR = 128% of industry BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

South Bend 127 safety composite

South Bend 127 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

South Bend 127: 1.2 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

South Bend 127's TCR rose 6.8 from 1.2 in 2017 to 8.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · South Bend, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 128% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #60/95
  • PHOTO R+L Carriers - CTA
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R+L Carriers - CTA (0.0 TCR gap)

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South Bend 127 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows South Bend 127 averages 5.8 TCR (128% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

South Bend 127 TCR series: 2017=1.2 · 2018=7.4 · 2019=8.5 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=9.2 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 4.5

Where South Bend 127 falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 95 industry employers in Indiana.

South Bend 127 (80 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 South Bend 127
South Bend 127 (80 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

South Bend 127 has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 8.1 6.9 7 0 0
2023 3.8 1.3 3 0 0
2022 5.8 4.6 5 0 0
2021 9.2 8.0 8 0 0
2020 2.4 0.0 2 0 0
2019 8.5 4.8 7 0 0
2018 7.4 4.9 6 0 0
2017 1.2 1.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · IN · South Bend

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 318 employers in South Bend, 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 R+L Carriers - CTA 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LGT 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR USK 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR XDV 5.8 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 Memorial Hospital South Bend 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph County 1,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fourwinds Casino South Bend 1,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honeywell IN08 810 FTE
NAT-TCR Newburgh 061 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Branch 208 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bear Archery, Inc. dba Escalade Sports 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Amicalola Emc- Hdq 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Middle School 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mobile 109 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE 234 Glog - Mechanicsburg 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acquistapace Farms, Inc. 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.