Superstores (i.e., food and general merchandise) · Indiana

Store 165

Name: Store 165 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Merrillville, IN · ~275 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.6
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Store 165 runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Superstores (i.e., food and general merchandise) workplace, earning a grade A.

Store 165: 0.6 TCR = 18% of Superstores (i.e., food and general merchandise) BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Store 165 safety composite

Store 165 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

85/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers
DART rate: A 0.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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

Store 165: 0.0 → 0.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2019

Store 165's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452910 · Merrillville, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 18% of ind

DART 0.5 DART
RANK #2/235
PHOTO Crescent Park Corpor…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~275 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Crescent Park Corporation - C8 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Crescent Park

0.7
Meijer 142

0.7
This site

0.6
WM 2873

0.6
WM 4636

0.5

What this shows Store 165 averages 0.6 TCR (18% of the Superstores (i.e., food and general merchandise) BLS benchmark).

Store 165 TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=0.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Store 165 falls in its industry

8,658 Superstores (i.e., food and ge establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 235 Superstores (i.e., food and ge employers in Indiana.

Store 165 (275 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 245 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Store 165 has more employees than the Superstores (i.e., food and general merc median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2019	0.5	0.5	1
2018	1.4	1.4	3
2017	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452910 · IN · Merrillville

8,658 Superstores (i.e., food and general merchandise) 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Crescent Park Corporation - C8	CINCINNATI, OH	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	WM 2873	TROY, MI	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	WM 4636	APPOMATTOX, VA	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Meijer 142	SANDUSKY, OH	0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	S-L Snacks IN, LLC	JEFFERSONVILLE	275 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Progressive Pipe Fabricators	FORT WAYNE	275 FTE
STATE-SIZE	American Mitsuba Corporation	MONROEVILLE	275 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Meijer #139	MUNCIE	275 FTE
CITY-NEAR	275-NiSource-Merrillville IN-SLC	Merrillville	796 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Albanese Confectionery Group	Merrillville	591 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1618	Merrillville	377 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Regional Mental Health Center	Merrillville	371 FTE
NAT-TCR	Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc.	Erwin, TN	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Everris NA - Summerville	Summerville, SC	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	WIPP	Carlsbad, NM	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lincoln Lumber Corrigan	Corrigan, TX	0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Freeland yard	Freeland, WA	275 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Triumph Gear Systems	Macomb, MI	275 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Coca-Cola Company Atlanta Syrup Plant	Atlanta, GA	275 FTE
NAT-SIZE	1242 National Drive	Sacramento, CA	275 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: 2019, 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.