Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) · Illinois

#185 Art Van Merrillville

Merrillville, IL · ~37 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

#185 Art Van Merrillville runs at 254% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) workplace, earning a grade F.

#185 Art Van Merrillville: 8.6 TCR = 254% of Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

#185 Art Van Merrillville safety composite

#185 Art Van Merrillville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−2.0

2016→2019

#185 Art Van Merrillville injury rate improved

#185 Art Van Merrillville's TCR fell 2.0 from 5.8 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.8 · 2017=15.3 · 2018=9.6 · 2019=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 442110 · Merrillville, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 254% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #78/102
  • PHOTO 4535-1205
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4535-1205 (0.0 TCR gap)

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#185 Art Van Merrillville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows #185 Art Van Merrillville averages 8.6 TCR (254% of the Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) BLS benchmark).

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

#185 Art Van Merrillville TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=15.3 · 2018=9.6 · 2019=3.8 · BLS 3.4

Where #185 Art Van Merrillville falls in its industry

2,215 Furniture and appliance stores establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #78 safest of 102 Furniture and appliance stores employers in Illinois.

#185 Art Van Merrillville (37 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate #185 Art Van Merrillville
#185 Art Van Merrillville (37 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0

#185 Art Van Merrillville has more employees than the Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., pr median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2019 3.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 9.6 9.6 3 0 0
2017 15.3 15.3 5 0 0
2016 5.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442110 · IL · Merrillville

2,215 Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 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 4535-1205 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 622 Ontario Mills Outlet 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SERVICENTRO 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4535-0715 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Curtis Orchard Ltd 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tuscola 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewis Seed Farms, Inc. - Ursa 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora Fleet Facility 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR 16 West 84th Drive 100 FTE
NAT-TCR Priority Freight Handling, Inc 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 0967 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 0975 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-6123-West Elm 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE #24 Art Van Southfield 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Powell 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colonial Classics Inc 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cellofoam-Whiteland, IN-BM/FAB 37 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.