Employer · Indiana

Val 56

Hammond, IN · ~18 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Val 56 runs at 289% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Val 56: 9.8 TCR = 289% of industry BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Val 56 safety composite

Val 56 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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 56: 6.7 → 14.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 20.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Val 56's TCR rose 7.4 from 6.7 in 2016 to 14.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 20.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 289% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #376/416
  • PHOTO 6400-SWY-0020-0020-0…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6400-SWY-0020-0020-02595 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Val 56 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Val 56 averages 9.8 TCR (289% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Val 56 TCR series: 2016=6.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=20.7 · 2019=7.7 · 2020=14.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Val 56 falls in its industry

30,654 industry establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #376 safest of 416 industry employers in Indiana.

Val 56 (18 employees, TCR 9.8) 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 56
Val 56 (18 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Val 56 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 14.1 0.0 2 0 0
2019 7.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 20.7 13.8 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 6.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IN · Hammond

30,654 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 136 employers in Hammond, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0020-0020-02595 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0019-0019-01627 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5472-NAI-0033-0033-00602 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 100432 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE RVF Washington 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Madison (Pwr Del-IN) 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE 745-NiSource-Peru IN-Operating HQ 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sterling Construction Corporation 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR HORSESHOE HAMMOND 1,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lear Corporation - Hammond 920 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franciscan Health Hammond 535 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2818 419 FTE
NAT-TCR Sylmar - RBG 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Owens-Brockway Glass Container, Inc. Plant 76 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bayside Health and Rehabilitation Center 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : TEB3 9.8 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.