Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels · Indiana

Hilton Garden Inn Merrillville

Merrillville, IN · ~53 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hilton Garden Inn Merrillville runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels workplace, earning a grade D.

Hilton Garden Inn Merrillville: 5.4 TCR = 179% of Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels BLS 3.0 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hilton Garden Inn Merrillville safety composite

Hilton Garden Inn Merrillville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−3.3

2016→2019

Hilton Garden Inn Merrillville injury rate improved

Hilton Garden Inn Merrillville's TCR fell 3.3 from 6.4 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.4 · 2017=3.0 · 2018=9.0 · 2019=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 721110 · Merrillville, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 179% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #120/144
  • PHOTO Hyatt Regency Frisco
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hyatt Regency Frisco (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hilton Garden Inn Merrillville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hilton Garden Inn Merrillville averages 5.4 TCR (179% of the Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels BLS benchmark).

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

Hilton Garden Inn Merrillville TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2017=3 · 2018=9 · 2019=3 · BLS 3.0

Where Hilton Garden Inn Merrillville falls in its industry

9,342 Hotels (except Casino Hotels) establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #120 safest of 144 Hotels (except Casino Hotels) employers in Indiana.

Hilton Garden Inn Merrillville (53 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0100200300 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hilton Garden Inn Merrillville
Hilton Garden Inn Merrillville (53 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Hilton Garden Inn Merrillville has more employees than the Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2018 9.0 6.0 3 0 0
2017 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2016 6.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

721110 · IN · Merrillville

9,342 Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels 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 Hyatt Regency Frisco 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4263-54501 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1403 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Basecamp Boulder 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE County Line Egg Farm 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE 165-NiSource-Hammond IN-Elec Disp Cont Ctr 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Distribution Cooperative 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Reclamation (Sanitation) 53 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 Farm 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 60541 - Capstone Sysco Medley 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Martinez 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mary Free Bed Metro Health Hospital 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tops 672 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hazard Service Center 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE KIT Chicago 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE MIN Dallas 53 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, 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.