Buckets, elevator or conveyor, manufacturing · Indiana

Prime Conveyor, Inc.

Merrillville, IN · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prime Conveyor, Inc. runs at 302% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Buckets, elevator or conveyor, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Prime Conveyor, Inc.: 10.0 TCR = 302% of Buckets, elevator or conveyor, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prime Conveyor, Inc. safety composite

Prime Conveyor, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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).

F

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Prime Conveyor, Inc.: 5.1 → 14.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 14.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2018

Prime Conveyor, Inc.'s TCR rose 9.7 from 5.1 in 2017 to 14.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333922 · Merrillville, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 302% of ind

  • DART 11.1 DART
  • RANK #14/14
  • PHOTO Steel Craft, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Steel Craft, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Prime Conveyor, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prime Conveyor, Inc. averages 10.0 TCR (302% of the Buckets, elevator or conveyor, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Prime Conveyor, Inc. TCR series: 2017=5.1 · 2018=14.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Prime Conveyor, Inc. falls in its industry

361 Buckets, elevator or conveyor, establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 14 Buckets, elevator or conveyor, employers in Indiana.

Prime Conveyor, Inc. (31 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Prime Conveyor, Inc.
Prime Conveyor, Inc. (31 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Prime Conveyor, Inc. has fewer employees than the Buckets, elevator or conveyor, manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 14.8 11.1 4 0 0
2017 5.1 5.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333922 · IN · Merrillville

361 Buckets, elevator or conveyor, manufacturing 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 Steel Craft, Inc. 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SRS - Blue Lick Road 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ASC MACHINE TOOLS INC 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Talos Engineered Products 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - INW 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Pullet Farm 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whitestown, IN 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sullivan Service Center 31 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 Agile Sign & Lighting Maintenance, Inc 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Aquatica 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Clarkson Apartments 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Heatherwood RI LLC 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Salamanca Lumber Co., Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Foreign Car Parts, Inc. (03809) 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE HBSHSECO24 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adjustable Forms Inc. of Indiana 31 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, 2017. 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.