Employer · Indiana

St. Joseph County

Name: St. Joseph County Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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South Bend, IN · ~1,298 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.2
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

St. Joseph County runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

St. Joseph County: 5.2 TCR = 163% of industry BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

St. Joseph County safety composite

St. Joseph County scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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).

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 5.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

St. Joseph County: 4.0 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

St. Joseph County's TCR rose 2.3 from 4.0 in 2023 to 6.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · South Bend, IN ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 163% of ind

DART 4.0 DART
RANK #29/45
PHOTO Town of Lyman
BOOK 2y book
INJ 17 inj
SIZE ~1,298 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Town of Lyman (0.0 TCR gap)

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5.2
Town of Lyman

5.2
City of Crooks

5.2
County of Made

5.2
Jackson County

5.2

What this shows St. Joseph County averages 5.2 TCR (163% of the industry BLS benchmark).

St. Joseph County TCR series: 2023=4 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.2

Where St. Joseph County falls in its industry

1,496 industry establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 45 industry employers in Indiana.

St. Joseph County (1,298 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

St. Joseph County has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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	6.3	4.0	10	1	0
2023	4.0	4.0	7	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · IN · South Bend

1,496 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Town of Lyman	LYMAN, SC	5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	City of Crookston	CROOKSTON, MN	5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	County of Madera	MADERA, CA	5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Jackson County Government	MURPHYSBORO, IL	5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	GEICO INDY	INDIANAPOLIS	1,296 FTE
STATE-SIZE	4038	PLAINFIELD	1,291 FTE
STATE-SIZE	0559 - Indianapolis IN DC	INDIANAPOLIS	1,308 FTE
STATE-SIZE	7787_18633	SHELBYVILLE, IN	1,288 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Memorial Hospital South Bend	South Bend	2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fourwinds Casino South Bend	South Bend	1,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Honeywell IN08	South Bend	810 FTE
CITY-NEAR	INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND	South Bend	808 FTE
NAT-TCR	FV Clinics-Andover	Andover, MN	5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mikal - Kalamazoo	Kalamazoo, MI	5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	V2 Composites	Auburn, AL	5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dynamic Engineering, Inc	Watertown, SD	5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Amazon.com Services LLC - KSBD	San Bernardino, CA	1,298 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ABB Motors and Mechanical, Inc. - Fort Smith	Fort Smith, AR	1,298 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Siler City Processing	Siler City, NC	1,298 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians	Boston, MA	1,298 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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