Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) · Indiana

Ashley Furniture Homestore-MERRILLVILLE STORE

Merrillville, IN · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ashley Furniture Homestore-MERRILLVILLE STORE runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) workplace, earning a grade F.

Ashley Furniture Homestore-MERRILLVILLE STORE: 7.7 TCR = 226% of Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ashley Furniture Homestore-MERRILLVILLE STORE safety composite

Ashley Furniture Homestore-MERRILLVILLE STORE scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−3.4

2019→2020

Ashley Furniture Homestore-MERRILLVILLE STORE injury rate improved

Ashley Furniture Homestore-MERRILLVILLE STORE's TCR fell 3.4 from 9.4 in 2019 to 6.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.4 · 2020=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 226% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #28/39
  • PHOTO HAVERTY FURNITURE CO…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HAVERTY FURNITURE COMPANIES (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ashley Furniture Homestore-MERRILLVILLE STORE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ashley Furniture Homestore-MERRILLVILLE STORE averages 7.7 TCR (226% of the Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) BLS benchmark).

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

Ashley Furniture Homestore-MERRILLVILLE STORE TCR series: 2019=9.4 · 2020=6 · BLS 3.4

Where Ashley Furniture Homestore-MERRILLVILLE STORE falls in its industry

2,215 Furniture and appliance stores establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #28 safest of 39 Furniture and appliance stores employers in Indiana.

Ashley Furniture Homestore-MERRILLVILLE STORE (24 employees, TCR 7.7) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ashley Furniture Homestore-MERRILLVILLE STORE
Ashley Furniture Homestore-MERRILLVILLE STORE (24 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Ashley Furniture Homestore-MERRILLVILLE STORE has fewer employees than the Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., pr 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
2020 6.0 0.0 1 0 0
2019 9.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442110 · IN · Merrillville

2,215 Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) 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 HAVERTY FURNITURE COMPANIES 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4535-6011 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR COLFAX FURNITURE OF GREENSBORO 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Talsma Furniture 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Midwest Poultry Services - Corporate Office 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Pullet Farm / QC / Lab 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE 327-NiSource-West Terre Haute IN 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bedford Operations Center 24 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 4769-192-OUTLETS 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1553 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1048 Cary, Nc 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 965 Florence, Ky 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ashley Furniture Homestore- Southaven 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elite Team Offices 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Faial Farms, L.P. (Magnolia Ave.) 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roses 442 24 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.