Community health centers and clinics, outpatient · Indiana

Merrillville Site NorthShore Health Center

Merrillville, IN · ~34 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merrillville Site NorthShore Health Center runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Community health centers and clinics, outpatient workplace, earning a grade D.

Merrillville Site NorthShore Health Center: 5.4 TCR = 141% of Community health centers and clinics, outpatient BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrillville Site NorthShore Health Center safety composite

Merrillville Site NorthShore Health Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

−5.3

2016→2017

Merrillville Site NorthShore Health Center injury rate improved

Merrillville Site NorthShore Health Center's TCR fell 5.3 from 8.0 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.0 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.0 · 2017=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621498 · Merrillville, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 141% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/14
  • PHOTO Yuma Regional Medica…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yuma Regional Medical Center Family Medicine Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merrillville Site NorthShore Health Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merrillville Site NorthShore Health Center averages 5.4 TCR (141% of the Community health centers and clinics, outpatient BLS benchmark).

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

Merrillville Site NorthShore Health Center TCR series: 2016=8 · 2017=2.7 · BLS 3.8

Where Merrillville Site NorthShore Health Center falls in its industry

599 Community health centers and c establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #11 safest of 14 Community health centers and c employers in Indiana.

Merrillville Site NorthShore Health Center (34 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Merrillville Site NorthShore Health Center
Merrillville Site NorthShore Health Center (34 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Merrillville Site NorthShore Health Center has fewer employees than the Community health centers and clinics, ou median and a higher 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
2017 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2016 8.0 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621498 · IN · Merrillville

599 Community health centers and clinics, outpatient 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 Yuma Regional Medical Center Family Medicine Center 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR HDS Central 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ridley Tree Cancer Center 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sutter Outpatient Services, LLC (600-27) 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 118-NiSource-Hammond IN-CISC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heartland REMC - Markle District 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE 220-NiSource-Gary IN-GM&T 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ardizzone Enterprises Inc 34 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 Panama City (Flpan) 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Camp Verde (Azcam) 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Metal Coaters of Georgia 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bakery Feeds Butler 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Glenn E. Sessions & Sons 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haley, Chisholm & Morris, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caliber, Inc 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1034 Southern York Co. School District 34 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.