Employer · Indiana

Val 34

South Bend, IN · ~15 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Val 34 runs at 643% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Val 34: 21.9 TCR = 643% of industry BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Val 34 safety composite

Val 34 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Val 34: 24.5 → 25.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 25.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2019

Val 34's TCR rose 0.9 from 24.5 in 2016 to 25.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · South Bend, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 21.9 · 643% of ind

  • DART 17.0 DART
  • RANK #415/416
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0096 Or…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0096 Oro Valley (0.0 TCR gap)

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Val 34 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Val 34 averages 21.9 TCR (643% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Val 34 TCR series: 2016=24.5 · 2017=15.6 · 2019=25.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Val 34 falls in its industry

30,654 industry establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #415 safest of 416 industry employers in Indiana.

Val 34 (15 employees, TCR 21.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Val 34
Val 34 (15 employees, TCR 21.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Val 34 has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2019 25.4 17.0 2 1 0
2017 15.6 7.8 2 0 0
2016 24.5 9.8 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IN · South Bend

30,654 industry 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0096 Oro Valley 21.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWN 43 21.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1097 21.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norco #123 21.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE National Energy of Lincoln 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE 506-NiSource-Plymouth IN-Electric Sub 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE 211-NiSource-Gary IN-Electric Substation 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE HTNE Hydrodemolition Services, LLC 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital South Bend 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph County 1,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fourwinds Casino South Bend 1,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR Honeywell IN08 810 FTE
NAT-TCR 494 ABC Supply Co., Inc 21.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CentraCare - Long Prairie Care Center 21.9 TCR
NAT-TCR EH Picatinny 21.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kunkel Ambulance 21.9 TCR

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: 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.