Apparel stores, used clothing · Indiana

Western Avenue

South Bend, IN · ~273 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Western Avenue runs at 7% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Apparel stores, used clothing workplace, earning a grade A.

Western Avenue: 0.2 TCR = 7% of Apparel stores, used clothing BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Western Avenue safety composite

Western Avenue scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−0.5

2023→2024

Western Avenue injury rate improved

Western Avenue's TCR fell 0.5 from 0.5 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 453310 · South Bend, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 7% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/30
  • PHOTO Career Solutions
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~273 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Career Solutions (0.0 TCR gap)

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Western Avenue in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Western Avenue averages 0.2 TCR (7% of the Apparel stores, used clothing BLS benchmark).

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

Western Avenue TCR series: 2023=0.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Western Avenue falls in its industry

1,556 Apparel stores, used clothing establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 30 Apparel stores, used clothing employers in Indiana.

Western Avenue (273 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Western Avenue
Western Avenue (273 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Western Avenue has more employees than the Apparel stores, used clothing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.5 0.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

453310 · IN · South Bend

1,556 Apparel stores, used clothing 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Career Solutions 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodwill Industries of El Paso Inc. /George Dieter 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodwill Industries of Denver - Mainstreet 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodwill Industries of Denver - Iliff 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clarksville 25 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metal Technologies Auburn, LLC 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mursix Corporation 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paragon Medical - Instruments & Implants - Pierceton 273 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 Amcor Specialty Cartons Richmond 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hernandez Consulting Inc 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ultra Precision, Inc. 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR RES Contractors 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Retail Solutions LLC 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gamewell Mechanical, LLC 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spiniello Companies 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frantz Wholesale Nursery LLC 273 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.

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