Hospice care services, in home · Indiana

South Bend Hospice

South Bend, IN · ~43 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

South Bend Hospice runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hospice care services, in home workplace, earning a grade D.

South Bend Hospice: 8.6 TCR = 166% of Hospice care services, in home BLS 5.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

South Bend Hospice safety composite

South Bend Hospice scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−11.1

2016→2018

South Bend Hospice injury rate improved

South Bend Hospice's TCR fell 11.1 from 14.2 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 14.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.2 · 2017=8.7 · 2018=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · South Bend, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.6 · 166% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #44/58
  • PHOTO 0364 - SKI
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0364 - SKI (0.0 TCR gap)

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South Bend Hospice in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows South Bend Hospice averages 8.6 TCR (166% of the Hospice care services, in home BLS benchmark).

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

South Bend Hospice TCR series: 2016=14.2 · 2017=8.7 · 2018=3 · BLS 5.2

Where South Bend Hospice falls in its industry

3,635 Hospice care services, in home establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 58 Hospice care services, in home employers in Indiana.

South Bend Hospice (43 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate South Bend Hospice
South Bend Hospice (43 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

South Bend Hospice has fewer employees than the Hospice care services, in home median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2018 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 8.7 2.9 3 0 0
2016 14.2 11.3 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · IN · South Bend

3,635 Hospice care services, in home 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 0364 - SKI 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Care Hospice Services 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Helpmates - CCN 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lord Chamberlain 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Fork Farms 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics IN Hatchery 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred Int'l Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kosciusko REMC 43 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 Village of Minooka 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Electric Utilities 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Manor Care Health Services - Lancaster 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tucson Airport (HP) 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chromalloy Middletown 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5201 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Grass Golden Corral - Elizabethtown 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale North Ogden 43 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.