Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) · Indiana

Merrillville Homestore

Name: Merrillville Homestore Workplace Safety Data
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Merrillville, IN · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 8.2
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Merrillville Homestore runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) workplace, earning a grade F.

Merrillville Homestore: 8.2 TCR = 241% of Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrillville Homestore safety composite

Merrillville Homestore scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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).

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 8.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

−16.4

2016→2018

Merrillville Homestore injury rate improved

Merrillville Homestore's TCR fell 16.4 from 16.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 16.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.4 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 241% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #29/39
PHOTO 4535-0119
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4535-0119 (0.0 TCR gap)

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8.2
4535-0119

8.2
4535-1560

8.2
4535-0753

8.2
SUCURSAL HATO

8.2

What this shows Merrillville Homestore averages 8.2 TCR (241% of the Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) BLS benchmark).

Merrillville Homestore TCR series: 2016=16.4 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Merrillville Homestore falls in its industry

2,215 Furniture stores (e.g., househ establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 39 Furniture stores (e.g., househ employers in Indiana.

Merrillville Homestore (25 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Merrillville Homestore has fewer employees than the Furniture stores (e.g., household, offic 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
2018	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2016	16.4	5.5	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442110 · IN · Merrillville

2,215 Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	4535-0119	SAN DIEGO, CA	8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	4535-1560	LAKE FOREST, CA	8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	4535-0753	BRISTOL, CT	8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SUCURSAL HATO REY	HATO REY, PR	8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Vincennes Hatchery	VINCENNES	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	U.S. Aggregates, Inc - Corporate	INDIANAPOLIS	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	RWE Renewables Services LLC-Wildcat	WINDFALL	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Franklin (Pwr Del-IN)	FRANKLIN	25 FTE
CITY-NEAR	275-NiSource-Merrillville IN-SLC	Merrillville	796 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Albanese Confectionery Group	Merrillville	591 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1618	Merrillville	377 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Regional Mental Health Center	Merrillville	371 FTE
NAT-TCR	Eiss Brothers Auto Parts	Watertown, NY	8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	4795-PD-CAK-AKRON-CANTON-PD	North Canton, OH	8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dallas (Txdal)	Dallas, TX	8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	6400-Swy 0024 0025	Bellingham, WA	8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Dart Warehouse Corporation - DFW	Grand Prairie, TX	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Periska #3	Idaho Falls, ID	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Slater	Slater, MO	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	83rd Avenue	Kew Gardens, NY	25 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: 2018, 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.