Sugar, confectionery, manufacturing · Indiana

Albanese Confectionery Group

Merrillville, IN · ~591 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Albanese Confectionery Group runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sugar, confectionery, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Albanese Confectionery Group: 3.1 TCR = 73% of Sugar, confectionery, manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Albanese Confectionery Group safety composite

Albanese Confectionery Group scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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)
D 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 56% 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

−6.3

2016→2024

Albanese Confectionery Group injury rate improved

Albanese Confectionery Group's TCR fell 6.3 from 7.0 in 2016 to 0.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.0 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=3.2 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1.2 · 2024=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311314 · Merrillville, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.1 · 73% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK P49
  • PHOTO US Sugar
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 85 inj
  • SIZE ~591 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US Sugar (0.1 TCR gap)

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Albanese Confectionery Group in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Albanese Confectionery Group averages 3.1 TCR (73% of the Sugar, confectionery, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Albanese Confectionery Group TCR series: 2016=7 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=3.2 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1.2 · 2024=0.7 · BLS 4.2

Where Albanese Confectionery Group falls in its industry

57 Sugar, confectionery, manufact establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Albanese Confectionery Group (591 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Albanese Confectionery Group
Albanese Confectionery Group (591 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Albanese Confectionery Group has more employees than the Sugar, confectionery, manufacturing median and a higher 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.7 0.5 6 0 0
2021 1.2 1.2 8 0 0
2020 1.8 1.6 12 0 0
2018 3.2 1.8 16 0 0
2017 4.4 3.4 21 0 0
2016 7.0 5.5 22 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311314 · IN · Merrillville

57 Sugar, confectionery, manufacturing 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 US Sugar 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR US SUGAR CORPORATION 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sugaright LLC Covington 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richardsons 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sterling Boiler & Mechanical, LLC 590 FTE
STATE-SIZE Borg Warner Technical Center Kokomo 592 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enkei America, Inc. 589 FTE
STATE-SIZE RAI CREW IND 589 FTE
CITY-NEAR 275-NiSource-Merrillville IN-SLC 796 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1618 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Regional Mental Health Center 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1618 359 FTE
NAT-TCR Stewartville Middle School 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Waco, Tx Trucking 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sun Chemical Kankakee 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Automation Company, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advance Services, Inc. CP 591 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fanatics- Frazeysburg 591 FTE
NAT-SIZE Downrite Engineering Corp. 591 FTE
NAT-SIZE SCI, LLC - Phoenix 591 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, 2021, 2020, 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.