Full service restaurants · Indiana

Max & Erma's Carmel

Carmel, IN · ~40 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Max & Erma's Carmel runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Full service restaurants workplace, earning a grade D.

Max & Erma's Carmel: 5.8 TCR = 192% of Full service restaurants BLS 3.0 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Max & Erma's Carmel safety composite

Max & Erma's Carmel scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−7.9

2016→2019

Max & Erma's Carmel injury rate improved

Max & Erma's Carmel's TCR fell 7.9 from 7.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 15.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.9 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=15.2 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722511 · Carmel, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 192% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #33/59
  • PHOTO TES, Inc. Miller's S…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TES, Inc. Miller's Smorgasbord 101 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Max & Erma's Carmel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Max & Erma's Carmel averages 5.8 TCR (192% of the Full service restaurants BLS benchmark).

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

Max & Erma's Carmel TCR series: 2016=7.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=15.2 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.0

Where Max & Erma's Carmel falls in its industry

1,091 Full service restaurants establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 59 Full service restaurants employers in Indiana.

Max & Erma's Carmel (40 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Max & Erma's Carmel
Max & Erma's Carmel (40 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Max & Erma's Carmel has fewer employees than the Full service restaurants median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 15.2 10.1 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 7.9 7.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722511 · IN · Carmel

1,091 Full service restaurants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 157 employers in Carmel, 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 TES, Inc. Miller's Smorgasbord 101 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perkins LLC #1116 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR IHOP 3040 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Max & Erma's Dublin 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE 320-NiSource-Chesterton IN-Bailly Gen 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baer Field Service Center 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE IND-DWH-INDIANA 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Hospital 1,776 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana University Health North Hospital, Inc. 1,208 FTE
CITY-NEAR WW, RCI - Call Center, 9998 N. Michigan 1,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR AutoVIN 706 FTE
NAT-TCR Goya Foods of Orlando 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Air Stream Air Conditioning Corporation 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Warehouse, Omaha 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR DFNC - WOOD - Woodbury - DTI 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE LRCP/Kalispell, LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rws La Nola Tulane 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE QSI Carrollton 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE QSI-Enterprise 40 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.