Employer · Indiana

Val 37

Valparaiso, IN · ~31 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Val 37 runs at 589% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Val 37: 20.0 TCR = 589% of industry BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Val 37 safety composite

Val 37 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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 37: 3.6 → 19.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 34.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2020

Val 37's TCR rose 15.5 from 3.6 in 2016 to 19.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 34.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Valparaiso, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 20.0 · 589% of ind

  • DART 14.3 DART
  • RANK #413/416
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0042 La…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0042 La Canada (0.0 TCR gap)

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Val 37 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Val 37 averages 20.0 TCR (589% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Val 37 TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=34.9 · 2018=16.6 · 2019=26 · 2020=19 · BLS 3.4

Where Val 37 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 #413 safest of 416 industry employers in Indiana.

Val 37 (31 employees, TCR 20.0) 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 37
Val 37 (31 employees, TCR 20.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Val 37 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
2020 19.0 14.3 4 0 0
2019 26.0 26.0 5 0 0
2018 16.6 16.6 3 1 0
2017 34.9 17.5 8 0 0
2016 3.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IN · Valparaiso

30,654 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 Trader Joe's 0042 La Canada 20.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0563 Manchester 20.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BAT 81 20.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0162 Bellevue 20.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - INW 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Pullet Farm 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whitestown, IN 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sullivan Service Center 31 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 6458-ZCLT 20.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tahoe Truckee Unified School District 20.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbia Cottage Linglestown 20.0 TCR
NAT-TCR H.A.N.S.L Delivery Service Inc. 20.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wardell Builders Inc 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE N. Union Chicago Thrift Store 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morningside of Troy 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE 157 Quickchek Food Store 157 31 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, 2017, 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.