Cold storage warehousing · Indiana

Merchandise Warehouse Co., Inc.

Pendleton, IN · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merchandise Warehouse Co., Inc. runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cold storage warehousing workplace, earning a grade B.

Merchandise Warehouse Co., Inc.: 3.0 TCR = 52% of Cold storage warehousing BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merchandise Warehouse Co., Inc. safety composite

Merchandise Warehouse Co., Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−2.4

2021→2022

Merchandise Warehouse Co., Inc. injury rate improved

Merchandise Warehouse Co., Inc.'s TCR fell 2.4 from 4.2 in 2021 to 1.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.2 · 2022=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Pendleton, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 52% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #13/27
  • PHOTO Americold Logistics,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Americold Logistics, LLC: Phoenix Safeway (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merchandise Warehouse Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merchandise Warehouse Co., Inc. averages 3.0 TCR (52% of the Cold storage warehousing BLS benchmark).

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

Merchandise Warehouse Co., Inc. TCR series: 2021=4.2 · 2022=1.8 · BLS 5.8

Where Merchandise Warehouse Co., Inc. falls in its industry

1,039 Cold storage warehousing establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 27 Cold storage warehousing employers in Indiana.

Merchandise Warehouse Co., Inc. (40 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Merchandise Warehouse Co., Inc.
Merchandise Warehouse Co., Inc. (40 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Merchandise Warehouse Co., Inc. has fewer employees than the Cold storage warehousing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2022 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2021 4.2 4.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · IN · Pendleton

1,039 Cold storage warehousing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 21 employers in Pendleton, 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 Americold Logistics, LLC: Phoenix Safeway 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Murfreesboro - Managed 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Upper Lakes Foods CL 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quincy - Intermodal 3.0 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 Tractor Supply Company Distribution Center 0114 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC 0114 453 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rawlins House 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fredericks Inc 85 FTE
NAT-TCR Pratt Paper GA, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Drywall Systems Inc 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR R Barr Inc 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Yarde Metals, Limerick 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Adtech, Inc 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 55 Bartholomew Avenue 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE AJ Burk LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Infinity Electric LLC 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: 2022, 2021. 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.