Mail and Parcel Delivery · Indiana

173177-Gry-Merrillville Br

Merrillville, IN · ~48 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

173177-Gry-Merrillville Br runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mail and Parcel Delivery workplace, earning a grade D.

173177-Gry-Merrillville Br: 8.0 TCR = 178% of Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

173177-Gry-Merrillville Br safety composite

173177-Gry-Merrillville Br scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

173177-Gry-Merrillville Br: 7.9 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2022

173177-Gry-Merrillville Br's TCR rose 0.6 from 7.9 in 2017 to 8.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 491110 · Merrillville, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 178% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #170/298
  • PHOTO LIBERTY ROAD_1370406
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LIBERTY ROAD_1370406 (0.0 TCR gap)

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173177-Gry-Merrillville Br in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 173177-Gry-Merrillville Br averages 8.0 TCR (178% of the Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS benchmark).

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

173177-Gry-Merrillville Br TCR series: 2017=7.9 · 2018=11.2 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=10.1 · 2022=8.4 · BLS 4.5

Where 173177-Gry-Merrillville Br falls in its industry

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #170 safest of 298 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers in Indiana.

173177-Gry-Merrillville Br (48 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8 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 050100150 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 173177-Gry-Merrillville Br
173177-Gry-Merrillville Br (48 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8

173177-Gry-Merrillville Br has fewer employees than the Mail and Parcel Delivery median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.8. 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
2022 8.4 8.4 2 2 0
2021 10.1 10.1 5 0 0
2020 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2018 11.2 11.2 6 0 0
2017 7.9 5.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

491110 · IN · Merrillville

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 97 employers in Merrillville, 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 LIBERTY ROAD_1370406 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BREVOORT_1355775 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAULT SAINTE MARIE_1380854 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 513126-FALLS CHURCH PO 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Police Department 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pure Green Farms 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International Rushville 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harrison County REMC 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR 275-NiSource-Merrillville IN-SLC 796 FTE
CITY-NEAR Albanese Confectionery Group 591 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1618 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Regional Mental Health Center 371 FTE
NAT-TCR 204000-Irvine Po 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 204790-Louisville Ky Vmf 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 268338-Stp-Eastern Heights Sta 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 474627-Kno-Halls Sta 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 382106-Day-P L Dunbar Br 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE 381786-Col-Upper Arlington Br 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE 380504-Batavia Po 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE 388393-Uniontown Po 48 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017. 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.