Grocery stores · Indiana

Strack and Van Til Cedar Lake

Cedar Lake, IN · ~107 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Strack and Van Til Cedar Lake runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Strack and Van Til Cedar Lake: 6.8 TCR = 200% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Strack and Van Til Cedar Lake safety composite

Strack and Van Til Cedar Lake scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

Strack and Van Til Cedar Lake held a steady TCR band

Strack and Van Til Cedar Lake's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.6 in 2017 to 3.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.6 · 2018=16.6 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=7.7 · 2021=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Cedar Lake, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 200% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #330/416
  • PHOTO FoodTown #214
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~107 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FoodTown #214 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Strack and Van Til Cedar Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Strack and Van Til Cedar Lake averages 6.8 TCR (200% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Strack and Van Til Cedar Lake TCR series: 2017=3.6 · 2018=16.6 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=7.7 · 2021=3.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Strack and Van Til Cedar Lake falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #330 safest of 416 Grocery stores employers in Indiana.

Strack and Van Til Cedar Lake (107 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Strack and Van Til Cedar Lake
Strack and Van Til Cedar Lake (107 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Strack and Van Til Cedar Lake has more employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 3.4 3.4 3 0 0
2020 7.7 4.4 7 0 0
2019 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2018 16.6 5.5 12 0 0
2017 3.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IN · Cedar Lake

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 8 employers in Cedar Lake, 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 FoodTown #214 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Price Rite Store 311 Torrington 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10207 Tamarac 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lynnwood Grocery Outlet 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. Plymouth, IN 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2580-Remington, IN (Monsanto Co.) 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koetter Construction 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Layne Christensen 1468 West Hospital Road 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8756 Cedar Lake SVT 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR MacArthur Elementary 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Gund Company 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR CEDAR LAKE_1357378 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Frontier Airlines - Las Vegas Base 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-6244-Pottery Barn 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NGQ 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Viking SupplyNet - Houston 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Professional Building 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Touchpints at Farmington 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE C & Cs LLC 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valley Cartage Company Inc 107 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, 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.