County commissioners · Indiana

Whitley County Sheriff's Department

Columbia City, IN · ~79 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Whitley County Sheriff's Department runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical County commissioners workplace, earning a grade F.

Whitley County Sheriff's Department: 6.5 TCR = 203% of County commissioners BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whitley County Sheriff's Department safety composite

Whitley County Sheriff's Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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 Sheriff's Department: 5.0 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2024

Whitley County Sheriff's Department's TCR rose 2.7 from 5.0 in 2021 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 6.5 · 203% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #9/15
  • PHOTO COUNTY OF MOORE
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: COUNTY OF MOORE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Whitley County Sheriff's Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whitley County Sheriff's Department averages 6.5 TCR (203% 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 Sheriff's Department TCR series: 2021=5 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=8.9 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 3.2

Where Whitley County Sheriff's Department falls in its industry

158 County commissioners establishments

Safer than 42% 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 #9 safest of 15 County commissioners employers in Indiana.

Whitley County Sheriff's Department (79 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 Sheriff's Department
Whitley County Sheriff's Department (79 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Whitley County Sheriff's Department has fewer employees than the County commissioners median and a higher 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 7.7 5.8 3 1 0
2023 8.9 5.3 5 0 0
2022 4.4 0.0 3 0 0
2021 5.0 1.7 3 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 COUNTY OF MOORE 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Maiden 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Hamburg 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Juan County 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jackson County Rural Electric 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE IWP, Inc. 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kokomo 05 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Biancofiori 79 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 Vox Fulfillment 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 10012 Hadley 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 10352 Pompano Beach 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Peoria Park District 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heritage Green Assisted Living 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE SMP Health - Maryhill 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metropolitan Ford LLC 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Binderholz Enfield LLC 79 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, 2021. 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.