Payroll processing services · Indiana

Northwest Associates

Merrillville, IN · ~38 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northwest Associates runs at 1068% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Payroll processing services workplace, earning a grade F.

Northwest Associates: 5.3 TCR = 1068% of Payroll processing services BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwest Associates safety composite

Northwest Associates scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−16.0

2022→2024

Northwest Associates injury rate improved

Northwest Associates's TCR fell 16.0 from 16.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 16.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=16.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541214 · Merrillville, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.3 · 1068% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P7
  • PHOTO Texas Tool Belt
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Texas Tool Belt (0.2 TCR gap)

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Northwest Associates in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwest Associates averages 5.3 TCR (1068% of the Payroll processing services BLS benchmark).

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

Northwest Associates TCR series: 2022=16 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 0.5

Where Northwest Associates falls in its industry

15 Payroll processing services establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Northwest Associates (38 employees, TCR 5.3) among 8 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Tube Fab/Roman EngineeringExcel Payroll Services IncLodgeworks PartnersStampede Die Payroll ServicesLockheed Martin Corporation Lakeland Campus (1045)IMI Material Handling Logistics Inc.SourceTech Inc.PRO SystemsNorthwest Associates
Northwest Associates (38 employees, TCR 5.3) among 8 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Northwest Associates has fewer employees than the Payroll processing services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 16.0 16.0 0 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541214 · IN · Merrillville

15 Payroll processing services 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 Texas Tool Belt 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR IMI Material Handling Logistics Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tube Fab/Roman Engineering 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paymax Services, Inc. 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greenleaf Holdco LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Poultry Services, MPS Egg Farms 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yale Corteva 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marion Svc Ctr Bldg 1 38 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 Pcci-Ac K4x *5395-K4x / Duralectra-Chn, LLC - K4x 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 4032 Reinhardt University 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR KME America Marine Tube & Fitting LLC 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Shamrock General Hospital 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kempton Construction LLC 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE CVDMD-Cone-Cardiovascular Division MDs 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Landings of Georgetown 38 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. 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.