Grocery stores · Indiana

Strack And Van Til Valparaiso North

Valparaiso, IN · ~120 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Strack And Van Til Valparaiso North runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Strack And Van Til Valparaiso North: 8.2 TCR = 241% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Strack And Van Til Valparaiso North safety composite

Strack And Van Til Valparaiso North scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Strack And Van Til Valparaiso North: 2.6 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 14.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2021

Strack And Van Til Valparaiso North's TCR rose 5.9 from 2.6 in 2017 to 8.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Valparaiso, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 241% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK #357/416
  • PHOTO Superior Grocers 131
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Superior Grocers 131 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Strack And Van Til Valparaiso North in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Strack And Van Til Valparaiso North averages 8.2 TCR (241% 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 Valparaiso North TCR series: 2017=2.6 · 2018=9.6 · 2019=14.9 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=8.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Strack And Van Til Valparaiso North falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #357 safest of 416 Grocery stores employers in Indiana.

Strack And Van Til Valparaiso North (120 employees, TCR 8.2) 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 Valparaiso North
Strack And Van Til Valparaiso North (120 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Strack And Van Til Valparaiso North 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 8.5 8.5 7 0 0
2020 5.4 2.1 5 0 0
2019 14.9 1.1 13 0 0
2018 9.6 1.1 9 0 0
2017 2.6 2.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IN · Valparaiso

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 122 employers in Valparaiso, 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 Superior Grocers 131 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR LMMM Dallas #24 LTD. 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABS-0017-0016-00093 FAC-00093-BOULDER CITY-NV 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0029-0029-02352 FAC-02352-SAN DIEGO-CA 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heartland Growers, Inc. 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Plymouth PLY1 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE MGPI of Indiana, LLC 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cenveo Worldwide Limited Indianapolis 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Porter Hospital LLC 1,509 FTE
CITY-NEAR PORTER REGIONAL HOSPITAL 1,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR Opportunity Enterprises, Inc. 635 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Valparaiso 411 FTE
NAT-TCR HEC 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Metro Home Waterproofing #440 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dept. of Health & Social Services (10) 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Corral 584 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dudley Shoals 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-FPEN 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Long Branch Facility 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Hca - Clear Lake Regional 120 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.

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