Water treatment and distribution · Indiana

Valparaiso City Services

Valparaiso, IN · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valparaiso City Services runs at 523% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Valparaiso City Services: 6.3 TCR = 523% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valparaiso City Services safety composite

Valparaiso City Services scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Valparaiso City Services: 1.5 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2024

Valparaiso City Services's TCR rose 9.5 from 1.5 in 2023 to 11.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Valparaiso, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 523% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #9/12
  • PHOTO LASAN - Hyperion Wat…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LASAN - Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valparaiso City Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valparaiso City Services averages 6.3 TCR (523% of the Water treatment and distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Valparaiso City Services TCR series: 2023=1.5 · 2024=11 · BLS 1.2

Where Valparaiso City Services falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 12 Water treatment and distributi employers in Indiana.

Valparaiso City Services (71 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Valparaiso City Services
Valparaiso City Services (71 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Valparaiso City Services has more employees than the Water treatment and distribution median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 11.0 4.7 7 0 0
2023 1.5 1.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · IN · Valparaiso

727 Water treatment and distribution 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 LASAN - Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR D.A. Wood Construction, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louisiana Water Company 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Basin Water Company - Pahrump 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northeastern REMC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Signature Construction LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE TWG Construction, LLC. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.L. WALTER - ASSOCIATES INC. 71 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 Watson Metal Masters 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Txama - Amarillo 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohzan - Zanesville 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyatt Regency Chicago 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pacific Quality Packaging Corp. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anchor Bay at East Providence 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stevens Park Health and Rehabilitation 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ami Metals Ca 71 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. 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.