Employer · Indiana

83 - Merrillville

Name: 83 - Merrillville Workplace Safety Data
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Merrillville, IN · ~121 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.7
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

83 - Merrillville runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

83 - Merrillville: 2.7 TCR = 79% of industry BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

83 - Merrillville safety composite

83 - Merrillville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

83 - Merrillville: 1.6 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

83 - Merrillville's TCR rose 0.7 from 1.6 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Merrillville, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 79% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #37/78
PHOTO 71080
BOOK 6y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~121 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 71080 (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.7
71080

2.7
263 Bowie

2.7
310 Short Pump

2.7
468 Mesquite

2.7

What this shows 83 - Merrillville averages 2.7 TCR (79% of the industry BLS benchmark).

83 - Merrillville TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=3.3 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=0 · 2022=2.3 · BLS 3.4

Where 83 - Merrillville falls in its industry

2,917 industry establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 78 industry employers in Indiana.

83 - Merrillville (121 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

83 - Merrillville has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2022	2.3	0.0	1
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	5.3	1.8	3
2018	3.5	1.8	2
2017	3.3	1.6	2
2016	1.6	1.6	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · IN · Merrillville

2,917 industry 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	71080	MAYS LANDING, NJ	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	263 Bowie	BOWIE, MD	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	310 Short Pump	GLEN ALLEN, VA	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	468 Mesquite	MESQUITE, TX	2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	South Central Indiana REMC	MARTINSVILLE	121 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Central Indiana Insulation LLC	WESTFIELD	121 FTE
STATE-SIZE	McCormick South Bend Plant	SOUTH BEND	121 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Great Lakes Lamination	BRISTOL	121 FTE
CITY-NEAR	275-NiSource-Merrillville IN-SLC	Merrillville	796 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Albanese Confectionery Group	Merrillville	591 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1618	Merrillville	377 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Regional Mental Health Center	Merrillville	371 FTE
NAT-TCR	Helena Industries - Cordele	Cordele, GA	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	B's Homecare Inc.	Cambridge, MN	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	ORL-ODFL	Orlando, FL	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	The Miller Group Inc	Morrow, GA	2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	63 - Burbank	Burbank, IL	121 FTE
NAT-SIZE	212 - Kenosha	Kenosha, WI	121 FTE
NAT-SIZE	507 - El Paso East	El Paso, TX	121 FTE
NAT-SIZE	1157 - Grove City	Grove City, OH	121 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.