Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers · Indiana

Truck Centers, Inc. - South Bend

Name: Truck Centers, Inc. - South Bend Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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South Bend, IN · ~72 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.3
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Truck Centers, Inc. - South Bend runs at 422% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Truck Centers, Inc. - South Bend: 9.3 TCR = 422% of Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Truck Centers, Inc. - South Bend safety composite

Truck Centers, Inc. - South Bend scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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).

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 9.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Truck Centers, Inc. - South Bend: 9.0 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2024

Truck Centers, Inc. - South Bend's TCR rose 0.6 from 9.0 in 2023 to 9.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423110 · South Bend, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 422% of ind

DART 6.4 DART
RANK #50/51
PHOTO NE Truck-GI
BOOK 2y book
INJ 11 inj
SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NE Truck-GI (0.0 TCR gap)

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9.3
NE Truck-GI

9.3
Nextran Truck

9.3
151

9.3
4598-RTC TUCSO

9.3

What this shows Truck Centers, Inc. - South Bend averages 9.3 TCR (422% of the Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Truck Centers, Inc. - South Bend TCR series: 2023=9 · 2024=9.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Truck Centers, Inc. - South Bend falls in its industry

1,333 Motor vehicle merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #50 safest of 51 Motor vehicle merchant wholesa employers in Indiana.

Truck Centers, Inc. - South Bend (72 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Truck Centers, Inc. - South Bend has more employees than the Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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	9.6	6.4	5	1	0
2023	9.0	7.5	6	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · IN · South Bend

1,333 Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 318 employers in South Bend, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	NE Truck-GI	GRAND ISLAND, NE	9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Nextran Truck Center, Macon	MACON, GA	9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	151	ANTELOPE, CA	9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	4598-RTC TUCSON	TUCSON, AZ	9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Kokomo Operations Center	KOKOMO	72 FTE
STATE-SIZE	J. R. Kelly Company, Inc.	LAFAYETTE	72 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Indianapolis One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning	INDIANAPOLIS	72 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Gordon Plumbing, Inc.	INDIANAPOLIS	72 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Memorial Hospital South Bend	South Bend	2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Joseph County	South Bend	1,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fourwinds Casino South Bend	South Bend	1,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Honeywell IN08	South Bend	810 FTE
NAT-TCR	Wiair - Mke Air Gateway	Milwaukee, WI	9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Universal Truck Equipment	Galesville, WI	9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Virginia Beach Bickford	Virginia Beach, VA	9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	NY15530	New York, NY	9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Wache - Chehalis	Chehalis, WA	72 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Nmfar - Farmington Center	Farmington, NM	72 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wvblf - Bluefield Center	Princeton, WV	72 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Nddic - Dickinson	Dickinson, ND	72 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.

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