Child welfare services · Indiana

State of Indiana - DCS Lake County

Gary, IN · ~242 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

State of Indiana - DCS Lake County runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Child welfare services workplace, earning a grade B.

State of Indiana - DCS Lake County: 3.0 TCR = 79% of Child welfare services BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

State of Indiana - DCS Lake County safety composite

State of Indiana - DCS Lake County scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

Rising injury rate

State of Indiana - DCS Lake County: 1.6 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2021

State of Indiana - DCS Lake County's TCR rose 2.8 from 1.6 in 2020 to 4.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624110 · Gary, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 79% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #19/35
  • PHOTO KY - Hazard
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~242 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KY - Hazard (0.0 TCR gap)

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State of Indiana - DCS Lake County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows State of Indiana - DCS Lake County averages 3.0 TCR (79% of the Child welfare services BLS benchmark).

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

State of Indiana - DCS Lake County TCR series: 2020=1.6 · 2021=4.4 · BLS 3.8

Where State of Indiana - DCS Lake County falls in its industry

328 Child welfare services establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 35 Child welfare services employers in Indiana.

State of Indiana - DCS Lake County (242 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate State of Indiana - DCS Lake County
State of Indiana - DCS Lake County (242 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.3

State of Indiana - DCS Lake County has more employees than the Child welfare services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2021 4.4 2.2 10 0 0
2020 1.6 0.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624110 · IN · Gary

328 Child welfare services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 107 employers in Gary, 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 KY - Hazard 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NJ047-YAPI-ESSEX COUNTY AP, NJ047 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PA104-YAPI-DAUPHIN COUNTY FC, PA104 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PALBN-YAPI-LEBANON COUNTY PA 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zenith Logistics English 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asphalt Materials, Inc - Corporate 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meritor 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE meijer store 296 242 FTE
CITY-NEAR USS Gary Works - Plant 4,744 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gary Works 3,767 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRNI Holdings, LLC 1,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DIN2 569 FTE
NAT-TCR Madison Construction, LP 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MOPAR Centerline PDC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pilgrim's Poultry Processing 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ludington 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unigen Corporation 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Empire Acero 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lumentum 80 Rose Orchard 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0358 - Brandon Fl Whse 242 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: 2021, 2020. 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.