County commissioners · Indiana

Whitley County Government Center

Columbia City, IN · ~59 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Whitley County Government Center runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical County commissioners workplace, earning a grade D.

Whitley County Government Center: 5.5 TCR = 172% of County commissioners BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whitley County Government Center safety composite

Whitley County Government Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Whitley County Government Center: 0.0 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Whitley County Government Center's TCR rose 12.8 from 0.0 in 2022 to 12.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921120 · Columbia City, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 172% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/15
  • PHOTO Gila County Government
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gila County Government (0.0 TCR gap)

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Whitley County Government Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whitley County Government Center averages 5.5 TCR (172% of the County commissioners BLS benchmark).

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

Whitley County Government Center TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=12.8 · BLS 3.2

Where Whitley County Government Center falls in its industry

158 County commissioners establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 15 County commissioners employers in Indiana.

Whitley County Government Center (59 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Whitley County Government Center
Whitley County Government Center (59 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Whitley County Government Center has fewer employees than the County commissioners median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 12.8 0.0 2 1 0
2023 3.7 0.0 0 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921120 · IN · Columbia City

158 County commissioners employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 67 employers in Columbia City, 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 Gila County Government 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Dyersburg 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Carlsbad 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corp Yard 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bio Town Ag, Inc. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spy Run Building 3 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Annex Group 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE JGBowers, Inc. 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Structural and Rail 944 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Dynamics Structural & Rail Division 802 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lear Corporation - Columbia City 529 FTE
CITY-NEAR Undersea Sensor Systems Inc 527 FTE
NAT-TCR Piney Forest SNF LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Joplin Supply Company 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Clarmil 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rolling Fields by Heritage 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Non-Ferrous cast alloy's Inc. 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hunter Museum of American Art 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steve's Woodworking, Inc. 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE S06981 - Pittsburgh South Hauling 59 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, 2022. 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.