Retail Store · Indiana

Ross store 1468

Merrillville, IN · ~28 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ross store 1468 runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Store workplace, earning a grade D.

Ross store 1468: 4.1 TCR = 121% of Retail Store BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ross store 1468 safety composite

Ross store 1468 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ross store 1468: 0.0 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.67× in 2020

Ross store 1468's TCR rose 13.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 13.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Merrillville, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 121% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #47/80
  • PHOTO 1125 - Golf Mill
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1125 - Golf Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ross store 1468 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ross store 1468 averages 4.1 TCR (121% of the Retail Store BLS benchmark).

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

Ross store 1468 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=13.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Ross store 1468 falls in its industry

4,991 Retail Store establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 80 Retail Store employers in Indiana.

Ross store 1468 (28 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ross store 1468
Ross store 1468 (28 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Ross store 1468 has fewer employees than the Retail Store median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2020 13.8 6.9 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.8 6.8 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · IN · Merrillville

4,991 Retail Store 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 1125 - Golf Mill 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #1206 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 561 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 1374 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eagle Valley CCGT 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shelbyville District Office 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Decatur County REMC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Columbus 28 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 Ross store 865 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1582 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1374 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 561 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ross store 2046 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1810 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1303 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1397 28 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.