General freight trucking, local · Indiana

Titus - Valparaiso

Valparaiso, IN · ~67 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Titus - Valparaiso runs at 195% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade D.

Titus - Valparaiso: 8.8 TCR = 195% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Titus - Valparaiso safety composite

Titus - Valparaiso scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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 8.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.6

2020→2024

Titus - Valparaiso injury rate improved

Titus - Valparaiso's TCR fell 5.6 from 8.3 in 2020 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 16.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=8.3 · 2021=10.7 · 2022=16.4 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Valparaiso, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.8 · 195% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #74/85
  • PHOTO NHLDO - MANCHESTER
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NHLDO - MANCHESTER (0.0 TCR gap)

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Titus - Valparaiso in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Titus - Valparaiso averages 8.8 TCR (195% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

Titus - Valparaiso TCR series: 2020=8.3 · 2021=10.7 · 2022=16.4 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Titus - Valparaiso falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #74 safest of 85 General freight trucking, loca employers in Indiana.

Titus - Valparaiso (67 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Titus - Valparaiso
Titus - Valparaiso (67 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Titus - Valparaiso has more employees than the General freight trucking, local 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
2024 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2023 5.8 5.8 5 0 0
2022 16.4 15.0 12 0 0
2021 10.7 8.4 9 0 0
2020 8.3 7.2 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IN · Valparaiso

2,784 General freight trucking, local 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 NHLDO - MANCHESTER 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Titus - Rosenberg 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BSF Columbus 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mcrae's US Mail Service 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northern Indiana Laborers 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Division Office 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - AB Brown 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steinberger Construction Inc 67 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 International ship repair and marine services 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 10353 Glen Mills 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dfa Fluid - Great Falls Mt 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lawn and Tree Services 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Horizon Realty Advisors LLC 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE L&M Fleet Supply Detroit Lakes 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation US NV Fallon Pasture Rd (1585) 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE ITI Engineering LLC 67 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.