Slicing machinery (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing · Indiana

Urschel Laboratories

Chesterton, IN · ~442 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Urschel Laboratories runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Slicing machinery (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Urschel Laboratories: 5.5 TCR = 168% of Slicing machinery (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Urschel Laboratories safety composite

Urschel Laboratories scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

−1.7

2016→2024

Urschel Laboratories injury rate improved

Urschel Laboratories's TCR fell 1.7 from 6.9 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.9 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 168% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK P24
  • PHOTO Modesto Dairy Soluti…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 92 inj
  • SIZE ~442 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Modesto Dairy Solutions (0.1 TCR gap)

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Urschel Laboratories in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Urschel Laboratories averages 5.5 TCR (168% of the Slicing machinery (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 Laboratories TCR series: 2016=6.9 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Urschel Laboratories falls in its industry

215 Slicing machinery (i.e., food establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Urschel Laboratories (442 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Laboratories
Urschel Laboratories (442 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Urschel Laboratories has more employees than the Slicing machinery (i.e., food manufactur 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
2023 3.4 1.6 15 2 0
2022 6.7 1.9 25 7 0
2016 6.9 1.5 26 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · IN · Chesterton

215 Slicing machinery (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 Modesto Dairy Solutions 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vollrath Company LLC, Kiel 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Extrusion International 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ankeny, IA 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Voyant Beauty Elkhart - Personal Care 442 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chiyoda USA Corporation 442 FTE
STATE-SIZE Porter, Indiana 442 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland - IN 442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Urschel 447 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 MEDOC Maine State Prison 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Flyer Defense 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DCM6 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Norway 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE DataScan 442 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huron Inc 442 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - AVP3 442 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Jacksonville Facility 442 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, 2016. 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.