Employer · Indiana

Val 74

Merrillville, IN · ~21 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Val 74 runs at 390% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Val 74: 13.3 TCR = 390% of industry BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Val 74 safety composite

Val 74 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Val 74: 0.0 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 54.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2020

Val 74's TCR rose 6.2 from 0.0 in 2017 to 6.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 54.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Merrillville, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.3 · 390% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #404/416
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0197 Tu…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0197 Tustin (0.0 TCR gap)

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Val 74 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Val 74 averages 13.3 TCR (390% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Val 74 TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=54.9 · 2019=33.6 · 2020=6.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Val 74 falls in its industry

30,654 industry establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #404 safest of 416 industry employers in Indiana.

Val 74 (21 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Val 74
Val 74 (21 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Val 74 has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 6.2 6.2 1 0 0
2019 33.6 26.9 5 0 0
2018 54.9 27.4 3 5 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IN · Merrillville

30,654 industry 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 Trader Joe's 0197 Tustin 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Grocers 133 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bristol Farms - 019 - BF Palm Desert 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carrollton #146 13.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastside Dairy, LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deer Ridge 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana Sow Farm 5 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana Sow Farm 3 21 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 PBI - Ground Ops 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Milford Center 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Paul Police Downtown Beat 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Long Beach - Resort 13.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Web 26 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Web 31 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premera Mountlake Terrace 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sxb 67 21 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. 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.