Hazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste · Indiana

TES East Chicago Facility

East Chicago, IN · ~187 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TES East Chicago Facility runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste workplace, earning a grade D.

TES East Chicago Facility: 3.7 TCR = 142% of Hazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TES East Chicago Facility safety composite

TES East Chicago Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

TES East Chicago Facility held a steady TCR band

TES East Chicago Facility's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.5 in 2021 to 3.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.5 · 2022=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562211 · East Chicago, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 142% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO Clean Harbors of Bra…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~187 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clean Harbors of Braintree Inc 61BR (0.0 TCR gap)

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TES East Chicago Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TES East Chicago Facility averages 3.7 TCR (142% of the Hazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste BLS benchmark).

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

TES East Chicago Facility TCR series: 2021=3.5 · 2022=3.8 · BLS 2.6

Where TES East Chicago Facility falls in its industry

211 Hazardous waste disposal facil establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 11 Hazardous waste disposal facil employers in Indiana.

TES East Chicago Facility (187 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 1.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate TES East Chicago Facility
TES East Chicago Facility (187 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 1.8

TES East Chicago Facility has more employees than the Hazardous waste disposal facilities comb median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.8. 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
2022 3.8 0.6 5 2 0
2021 3.5 1.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562211 · IN · East Chicago

211 Hazardous waste disposal facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 69 employers in East Chicago, 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 Clean Harbors of Braintree Inc 61BR 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR TES - Goodlettsville Operations 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Capital Insulation Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perma-Fix of Florida 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Robert Henry Corporation 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE Layne Christensen 4520 North State Road 37 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE Long Electric Co. Inc. 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butterfield Foods 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arcelormittal Indiana Harbor 3,844 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland-Cliffs - Indiana Harbor 3,192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ameristar East Chicago 1,371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ameristar Casino and Hotel East Chicago 1,155 FTE
NAT-TCR ODW - Handgards 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sangamon Mass Transit District 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Food Giant #582 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pavestone - BOSP 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4598-Rtc Houston 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE Draper Store - 20 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shoprite of Sicklerville 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4194 Yakima WA 187 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.