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

Tradebe Environmental Services - East Chicago Facility

East Chicago, IN · ~195 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tradebe Environmental Services - East Chicago Facility runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hazardous waste treatment facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste workplace, earning a grade D.

Tradebe Environmental Services - East Chicago Facility: 3.4 TCR = 130% of Hazardous waste treatment facilities combined with collection and/or local hauling of hazardous waste BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tradebe Environmental Services - East Chicago Facility safety composite

Tradebe Environmental Services - East Chicago Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

−1.3

2017→2020

Tradebe Environmental Services - East Chicago Facility injury rate improved

Tradebe Environmental Services - East Chicago Facility's TCR fell 1.3 from 3.9 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.9 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 130% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO Nuclear Sources & Se…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~195 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nuclear Sources & Services Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Tradebe Environmental Services - East Chicago Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tradebe Environmental Services - East Chicago Facility averages 3.4 TCR (130% of the Hazardous waste treatment 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

Tradebe Environmental Services - East Chicago Facility TCR series: 2017=3.9 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=2.6 · BLS 2.6

Where Tradebe Environmental Services - East Chicago Facility falls in its industry

211 Hazardous waste treatment faci establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #6 safest of 11 Hazardous waste treatment faci employers in Indiana.

Tradebe Environmental Services - East Chicago Facility (195 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Tradebe Environmental Services - East Chicago Facility
Tradebe Environmental Services - East Chicago Facility (195 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 1.8

Tradebe Environmental Services - East Chicago Facility has more employees than the Hazardous waste treatment facilities com 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
2020 2.6 0.5 5 0 0
2019 4.2 3.7 9 0 0
2018 2.8 0.9 6 0 0
2017 3.9 1.4 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562211 · IN · East Chicago

211 Hazardous waste treatment 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 Nuclear Sources & Services Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stericycle Environmental Solutions - Hatfield,PA-2869 Sandstone 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MSC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perma-Fix Northwest, Inc. (PFNW) 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wagner-Meinert LLC 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mahoney Foundries DBA Ward Corporation 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keystone Plant 23 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supply Chain : Lafayette Engine Facility 195 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 Beltmann Relocation Group - Santa Fe Springs, CA 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MBH 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MVP 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Burlington, VT Store 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE WABCO-MICO North Mankato 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nichols Aluminum Casting 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valley 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : SAT - San Antonio 195 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: 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.