Employer · Indiana

U S Lubricants - Valparaiso

Valparaiso, IN · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

U S Lubricants - Valparaiso runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

U S Lubricants - Valparaiso: 4.0 TCR = 121% of industry BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

U S Lubricants - Valparaiso safety composite

U S Lubricants - Valparaiso scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−5.4

2018→2020

U S Lubricants - Valparaiso injury rate improved

U S Lubricants - Valparaiso's TCR fell 5.4 from 8.7 in 2018 to 3.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.7 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324191 · Valparaiso, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 121% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Warren Distribution …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Warren Distribution NorthEast (0.0 TCR gap)

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U S Lubricants - Valparaiso in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows U S Lubricants - Valparaiso averages 4.0 TCR (121% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

U S Lubricants - Valparaiso TCR series: 2018=8.7 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where U S Lubricants - Valparaiso falls in its industry

171 industry establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 industry employers in Indiana.

U S Lubricants - Valparaiso (25 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate U S Lubricants - Valparaiso
U S Lubricants - Valparaiso (25 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 2.5

U S Lubricants - Valparaiso has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 8.7 8.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324191 · IN · Valparaiso

171 industry 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 Warren Distribution NorthEast 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JXNOE NOLA 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Champion Brands 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inver Grove Heights Lube Plant 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vincennes Hatchery 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE U.S. Aggregates, Inc - Corporate 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE RWE Renewables Services LLC-Wildcat 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Franklin (Pwr Del-IN) 25 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 DI - NAWDC Fallon 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR New Standard Corporation - York Facility 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Manufacturing Plant 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Paramus Retail Store 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pap Knoxville 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pap Charlotte 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Progreso LMMM Wichita Falls #1, LLC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Good-Lite Company 25 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. 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.