Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing · Indiana

Urschel

Chesterton, IN · ~447 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Urschel runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Urschel: 5.3 TCR = 159% of Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Urschel safety composite

Urschel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.38 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

−0.4

2019→2024

Urschel injury rate improved

Urschel's TCR fell 0.4 from 5.6 in 2019 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.6 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=5.0 · 2024=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333241 · Chesterton, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 159% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK P25
  • PHOTO Research/Technical S…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 91 inj
  • SIZE ~447 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Research/Technical Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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Urschel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Urschel averages 5.3 TCR (159% of the Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Urschel TCR series: 2019=5.6 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=5 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Urschel falls in its industry

215 Food choppers, grinders, mixer establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Urschel (447 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Urschel
Urschel (447 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Urschel has more employees than the Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and sli median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 5.2 2.4 26 0 0
2021 5.0 2.1 19 4 0
2020 5.3 2.9 24 0 0
2019 5.6 0.9 22 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · IN · Chesterton

215 Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 27 employers in Chesterton, 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 Research/Technical Services 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reyco Systems Caldwell 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cokato 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Extrusion International 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE INTAT Precision, Inc. 447 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nucor Building Systems 448 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grote Industries 448 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clark County Government 446 FTE
CITY-NEAR Urschel Laboratories 442 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000003189 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000001189 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeshore Bone and Joint Institute - Chesterton 162 FTE
NAT-TCR Ribbon Webbing 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR LewisGale Hospital Alleghany 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Apple Rehab Saybrook 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 015 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Genesis Marine,LLC 447 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adient LLC 447 FTE
NAT-SIZE Port Orange 447 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foodservice : COVINGTON 447 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.