Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) · Indiana

The Room Place Merrillville 15

Name: The Room Place Merrillville 15 Workplace Safety Data
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Merrillville, IN · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.3
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

The Room Place Merrillville 15 runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) workplace, earning a grade B.

The Room Place Merrillville 15: 2.3 TCR = 69% of Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Room Place Merrillville 15 safety composite

The Room Place Merrillville 15 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−4.7

2017→2018

The Room Place Merrillville 15 injury rate improved

The Room Place Merrillville 15's TCR fell 4.7 from 4.7 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.7 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 442110 · Merrillville, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 69% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #9/39
PHOTO VCF 110
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VCF 110 (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.3
VCF 110

2.3
VCF 178

2.3
157 Las Vegas

2.3
C7 - Waterford

2.3

What this shows The Room Place Merrillville 15 averages 2.3 TCR (69% of the Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) BLS benchmark).

The Room Place Merrillville 15 TCR series: 2017=4.7 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.4

Where The Room Place Merrillville 15 falls in its industry

2,215 Furniture and appliance stores establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 39 Furniture and appliance stores employers in Indiana.

The Room Place Merrillville 15 (31 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0

The Room Place Merrillville 15 has more employees than the Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., pr median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2017	4.7	4.7	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442110 · IN · Merrillville

2,215 Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) 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	VCF 110	CHARLOTTE, NC	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	VCF 178	WESTLAND, MI	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	157 Las Vegas Gallery	LAS VEGAS, NV	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	C7 - Waterford	WATERFORD, CT	2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Black Gold Farms - INW	WINAMAC	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Midwest Pullet Farm	MENTONE	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Whitestown, IN	WHITESTOWN	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sullivan Service Center	SULLIVAN	31 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	Pittston Twp Pa Distribution Center	Pittston Twp, PA	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (UFI-6374)	Carlisle, PA	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	LTD Bannockburn # 1	Bannockburn, IL	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bemis North America - Batavia	Batavia, IL	2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Leaf River Ag Service	Wadena, MN	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wiles Bros. Fertilizer, Inc.	Plattsmouth, NE	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Safety Administration/Accident Tracking	Celina, OH	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Council Bluffs Branch	Council Bluffs, IA	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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.