Employer · Iowa

104 - Merle Hay

Des Moines, IA · ~103 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

104 - Merle Hay runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

104 - Merle Hay: 2.8 TCR = 83% of industry BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

104 - Merle Hay safety composite

104 - Merle Hay scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−2.1

2016→2019

104 - Merle Hay injury rate improved

104 - Merle Hay's TCR fell 2.1 from 2.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.1 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 83% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/62
  • PHOTO 1765 - Watauga
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1765 - Watauga (0.0 TCR gap)

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104 - Merle Hay in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 104 - Merle Hay averages 2.8 TCR (83% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

104 - Merle Hay TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.4

Where 104 - Merle Hay falls in its industry

4,991 industry establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 62 industry employers in Iowa.

104 - Merle Hay (103 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 104 - Merle Hay
104 - Merle Hay (103 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

104 - Merle Hay has more employees than the industry 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.9 0.0 3 0 0
2017 2.2 0.0 1 0 0
2016 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · IA · Des Moines

4,991 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 525 employers in Des Moines, IA · 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 1765 - Watauga 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3365 - Salt Lake City Sugar House 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #0549 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #2878 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Boone, IA 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walnut Ridge Service Center 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fredericksburg Plant 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE IDT Coralville 2470 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Des Moines 3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR 214 - Saginaw 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stericycle Environmental Solutions - Houston,TX-4050 Homestead 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Torrance Rlc 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Key Bridge Marriott 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 162 - Pottstown 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE 172 - Salisbury-MD 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE 278 - Granite Run 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE 319 - Huntersville 103 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, 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.