423420 Office Equipment Merchant Wholesalers · Indiana

Merrillville IN

Merrillville, IN · ~175 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merrillville IN runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical 423420 Office Equipment Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Merrillville IN: 2.0 TCR = 92% of 423420 Office Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrillville IN safety composite

Merrillville IN 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 2.02 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

−2.7

2021→2024

Merrillville IN injury rate improved

Merrillville IN's TCR fell 2.7 from 2.7 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.7 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423420 · Merrillville, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO IL.CHICA.128 - Ricoh…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~175 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IL.CHICA.128 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merrillville IN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merrillville IN averages 2.0 TCR (92% of the 423420 Office Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Merrillville IN TCR series: 2021=2.7 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Merrillville IN falls in its industry

416 423420 Office Equipment Mercha establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 8 423420 Office Equipment Mercha employers in Indiana.

Merrillville IN (175 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 0100200300400 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Merrillville IN
Merrillville IN (175 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Merrillville IN has more employees than the 423420 Office Equipment Merchant Wholesa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.6 2.6 4 0 0
2022 2.8 2.1 4 0 0
2021 2.7 0.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423420 · IN · Merrillville

416 423420 Office Equipment Merchant Wholesalers 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 IL.CHICA.128 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1915-1100X 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SBS San Diego (Simi Valley) 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1915-5600X 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Osborn Richmond 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE TAG State Wide Aluminum, Inc. 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keystone Plant 1 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smiths Medical - Gary 175 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 American Refrigeration Supplies Inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DIX Shipping Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kema-Powertest, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Alma Pak International 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aethercomm 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri-County Industries Inc 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hanover Architectural Products 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeside Interior Contractors, Inc. 175 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. 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.