Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers · Indiana

552 Val74

Merrillville, IN · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

552 Val74 runs at 386% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers workplace, earning a grade F.

552 Val74: 13.1 TCR = 386% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

552 Val74 safety composite

552 Val74 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

552 Val74: 0.0 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 32.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

552 Val74's TCR rose 6.6 from 0.0 in 2022 to 6.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 32.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Merrillville, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.1 · 386% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #403/416
  • PHOTO Store 8031
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 8031 (0.0 TCR gap)

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552 Val74 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 552 Val74 averages 13.1 TCR (386% of the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers BLS benchmark).

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

552 Val74 TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=32.8 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 552 Val74 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #403 safest of 416 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Indiana.

552 Val74 (22 employees, TCR 13.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 552 Val74
552 Val74 (22 employees, TCR 13.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

552 Val74 has fewer employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 6.6 0.0 1 0 0
2023 32.8 32.8 5 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IN · Merrillville

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers 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 Store 8031 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-01294 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HAI 17 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0653 Washington 13.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wilson Fertilizer, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE MISHAWAKA CONCRETE ASPHALT RECYCLE INC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCAR 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Connersville District Office 22 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 Claro's San Gabriel 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Brooks Painting, Inc 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hibbett Wholesale, Inc 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Homestead of Denison 13.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2924 Dwt42 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1419 Swn67 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2946 Swn105 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2323 Swn53 22 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. 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.