Home Centers · Indiana

Merrillville in - 3504

Merrillville, IN · ~181 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merrillville in - 3504 runs at 204% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home Centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Merrillville in - 3504: 6.9 TCR = 204% of Home Centers BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrillville in - 3504 safety composite

Merrillville in - 3504 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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 6.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−8.8

2018→2024

Merrillville in - 3504 injury rate improved

Merrillville in - 3504's TCR fell 8.8 from 9.6 in 2018 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.6 · 2019=7.0 · 2020=10.1 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=9.2 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Merrillville, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 204% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #128/163
  • PHOTO CLIO MI - 3241
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 69 inj
  • SIZE ~181 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CLIO MI - 3241 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merrillville in - 3504 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merrillville in - 3504 averages 6.9 TCR (204% of the Home Centers BLS benchmark).

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

Merrillville in - 3504 TCR series: 2018=9.6 · 2019=7 · 2020=10.1 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=9.2 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Merrillville in - 3504 falls in its industry

6,309 Home Centers establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #128 safest of 163 Home Centers employers in Indiana.

Merrillville in - 3504 (181 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Merrillville in - 3504
Merrillville in - 3504 (181 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Merrillville in - 3504 has more employees than the Home Centers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2024 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2023 9.2 5.4 12 0 0
2022 5.7 2.1 8 0 0
2021 6.3 2.1 9 0 0
2020 10.1 2.0 15 0 0
2019 7.0 2.1 10 0 0
2018 9.6 2.7 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · IN · Merrillville

6,309 Home Centers 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 CLIO MI - 3241 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DUBUQUE IA - 3057 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1602 BRANDYWINE 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4187 WILLOW GROVE 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE BCI Solutions 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manchester Tank & Equipment 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE 021-00424 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Transportation 181 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 Dubuque Ia - 3057 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Clio Mi - 3241 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Transport - 392 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR RWJ University Hospital at Hamilton 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Moorhead Mn - 3229 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rochester North Mn - 3314 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin Wi - 3195 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warren Oh - 3316 181 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.