Discount Department Stores · California

0641 - Merced

Merced, CA · ~230 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0641 - Merced runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

0641 - Merced: 8.2 TCR = 241% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0641 - Merced safety composite

0641 - Merced scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

0641 - Merced: 1.8 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 21.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.1× in 2024

0641 - Merced's TCR rose 1.4 from 1.8 in 2019 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 21.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Merced, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 241% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #623/850
  • PHOTO 2164 - Las Vegas Blu…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~230 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2164 - Las Vegas Blue Diamond (0.0 TCR gap)

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0641 - Merced in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0641 - Merced averages 8.2 TCR (241% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0641 - Merced TCR series: 2019=1.8 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=21.9 · 2023=7.8 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 0641 - Merced falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #623 safest of 850 Discount Department Stores employers in California.

0641 - Merced (230 employees, TCR 8.2) 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 0641 - Merced
0641 - Merced (230 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0641 - Merced has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher 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
2024 3.1 0.8 4 0 0
2023 7.8 5.4 8 2 0
2022 21.9 21.2 3 27 0
2021 6.5 4.3 2 7 0
2019 1.8 1.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · CA · Merced

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 187 employers in Merced, CA · 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 2164 - Las Vegas Blue Diamond 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1227 - Concord 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 1256 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1138 - Silver Spring 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE BETTERAVIA FARMS 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amezcua Ag Inc 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE GREEN AG MANAGEMENT, LLC 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tierra Blanca FLC, Inc 230 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030211 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030211-211001 MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED 1,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dignity Health 1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-64030211-211001 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Niantic 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 2164 - Las Vegas Blue Diamond 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1227 - Concord 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Vehicle Logistics - OHAP 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0052 - Lake Street 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2091 - Acworth 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2523 - Portland NE 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Lacey Maintenance Shop 230 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019. 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.