Family restaurants, full service · Indiana

The Blue Gate Restaurant

Shipshewana, IN · ~186 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Blue Gate Restaurant runs at 276% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Family restaurants, full service workplace, earning a grade F.

The Blue Gate Restaurant: 8.3 TCR = 276% of Family restaurants, full service BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Blue Gate Restaurant safety composite

The Blue Gate Restaurant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.87 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.9

2023→2024

The Blue Gate Restaurant injury rate improved

The Blue Gate Restaurant's TCR fell 8.9 from 12.8 in 2023 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=12.8 · 2024=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722511 · Shipshewana, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 276% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #45/59
  • PHOTO Trattoria Reggiano #…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trattoria Reggiano #812 Venetian (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Blue Gate Restaurant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Blue Gate Restaurant averages 8.3 TCR (276% of the Family restaurants, full service BLS benchmark).

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

The Blue Gate Restaurant TCR series: 2023=12.8 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.0

Where The Blue Gate Restaurant falls in its industry

1,091 Family restaurants, full servi establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 59 Family restaurants, full servi employers in Indiana.

The Blue Gate Restaurant (186 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate The Blue Gate Restaurant
The Blue Gate Restaurant (186 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

The Blue Gate Restaurant has more employees than the Family restaurants, full service median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 3.8 2.9 4 0 0
2023 12.8 9.8 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722511 · IN · Shipshewana

1,091 Family restaurants, full service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 19 employers in Shipshewana, 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 Trattoria Reggiano #812 Venetian 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Coney Island - Royal Oak 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Momento 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Road Trip Bar & Grill LLC 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rieth-Riley - Cal-Region 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE KW Construction Services, LLC 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keystone RV Plant 3 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keystone RV Company - Plant 702 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR KZ RECREATIONAL VEHICLES 662 FTE
CITY-NEAR KZ 584 FTE
CITY-NEAR Highland Ridge RV 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riegsecker Restaurants 192 FTE
NAT-TCR Maui Disposal Co. Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Original Mattress Factory 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Murray County 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR UPMC Pinnacle Anesthesia Services LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Decatur AL 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Red Bud Regional Hospital 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aspire Physical Recovery Center at Cahaba River, LLC 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE 02-AZ 186 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.