Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers · Indiana

South Bend in

South Bend, IN · ~108 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

South Bend in runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

South Bend in: 5.3 TCR = 243% of Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

South Bend in safety composite

South Bend in scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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 in: 0.0 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.44× in 2024

South Bend in's TCR rose 8.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 8.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · South Bend, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.3 · 243% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #15/31
  • PHOTO BATESVILLE AR - DIST…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 56 inj
  • SIZE ~108 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BATESVILLE AR - DISTRIBUTION (0.0 TCR gap)

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South Bend in in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows South Bend in averages 5.3 TCR (243% of the Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

South Bend in TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=7.1 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=9.8 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 2.2

Where South Bend in falls in its industry

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Prod establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 31 Other Grocery and Related Prod employers in Indiana.

South Bend in (108 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate South Bend in
South Bend in (108 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

South Bend in has more employees than the Other Grocery and Related Products Merch median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 8.6 7.7 10 0 0
2023 5.5 5.5 7 0 0
2022 4.9 4.1 6 0 0
2021 9.8 8.0 11 0 0
2020 5.5 5.5 6 0 0
2019 2.4 0.8 3 0 0
2018 4.3 3.5 5 0 0
2017 7.1 7.1 8 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · IN · South Bend

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers 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 BATESVILLE AR - DISTRIBUTION 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pepsi Luverne Main Warehouse 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1026 - Lansing 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR GFI Carolina LLC 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer, Worthington - US - Production 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cayuga Generating Station 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE E & B PAVING LLC - Corporate 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Primco, Inc. 108 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 Golden Rule Builders 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sky Lakes Medical Center, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR St Mary's Regional Medical Center 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Allweather Landscape Inc 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Architectural Solutions, Inc. 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baker Distributing South 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alpha Packaging 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gartner Refrigeration 108 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.