Retail/Home Furnishings · Indiana

4535-0357

Merrillville, IN · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

4535-0357 runs at 638% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail/Home Furnishings workplace, earning a grade F.

4535-0357: 21.7 TCR = 638% of Retail/Home Furnishings BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

4535-0357 safety composite

4535-0357 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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).

F

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Rising injury rate

4535-0357: 15.1 → 17.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 32.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2019

4535-0357's TCR rose 2.4 from 15.1 in 2016 to 17.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 32.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 21.7 · 638% of ind

  • DART 17.4 DART
  • RANK #39/39
  • PHOTO 052085 MIAMI SOUTH W…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 052085 MIAMI SOUTH WAREHOUSE (0.0 TCR gap)

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4535-0357 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 4535-0357 averages 21.7 TCR (638% of the Retail/Home Furnishings BLS benchmark).

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

4535-0357 TCR series: 2016=15.1 · 2017=32.5 · 2019=17.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 4535-0357 falls in its industry

2,215 Retail/Home Furnishings establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 39 Retail/Home Furnishings employers in Indiana.

4535-0357 (21 employees, TCR 21.7) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 4535-0357
4535-0357 (21 employees, TCR 21.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0

4535-0357 has fewer employees than the Retail/Home Furnishings 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 17.4 17.4 1 0 0
2017 32.5 32.5 2 0 0
2016 15.1 15.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442110 · IN · Merrillville

2,215 Retail/Home Furnishings 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 052085 MIAMI SOUTH WAREHOUSE 21.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 811 - Warehouse - PA 21.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4535-0722 21.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4535-1144 21.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastside Dairy, LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deer Ridge 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana Sow Farm 5 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana Sow Farm 3 21 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 Watertown Hatchery 21.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Merrill Gardens at Rolling Hills Estates 21.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility 21.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Systems Plus Lumber Co. Inc. 21.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE PrintXcel 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tru by Hilton Cheyenne 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn & Suites Lincoln NE 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfield Inn and Suites Martinsburg 21 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, 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.