Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers · Indiana

43121c - Merrillville Dc

Merrillville, IN · ~58 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

43121c - Merrillville Dc runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

43121c - Merrillville Dc: 2.0 TCR = 91% of Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

43121c - Merrillville Dc safety composite

43121c - Merrillville Dc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

−1.4

2016→2021

43121c - Merrillville Dc injury rate improved

43121c - Merrillville Dc's TCR fell 1.4 from 3.0 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.0 · 2017=3.8 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424450 · Merrillville, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.0 · 91% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #6/16
  • PHOTO 42621B - EASTON DC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 42621B - EASTON DC (0.0 TCR gap)

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43121c - Merrillville Dc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 43121c - Merrillville Dc averages 2.0 TCR (91% of the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

43121c - Merrillville Dc TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=3.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=1.6 · BLS 2.2

Where 43121c - Merrillville Dc falls in its industry

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 16 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa employers in Indiana.

43121c - Merrillville Dc (58 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate 43121c - Merrillville Dc
43121c - Merrillville Dc (58 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8

43121c - Merrillville Dc has more employees than the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2021 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2020 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.8 3.8 2 0 0
2016 3.0 3.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424450 · IN · Merrillville

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers 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 42621B - EASTON DC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 42251C - GRAND RAPIDS 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 49341AH - YAKIMA BIN 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 49751B - DENVER ZONE 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Indiana American Water - Greenwood 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Outside Plant 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Hoosier Company, Inc. 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Service Electric Of Allen County, Inc. 58 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 Panel Truss of Longview INC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR P2-Wilkes-Barre Showroom 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hydro Systems 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Springhill Suites Vero Beach 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 44371a - Daytona Beach Dc 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holland Roofing SPD 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fortis Solutions Group (Wixom) 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE James E Owen trucking 58 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.