Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers · California

Belkorp Ag - Merced

Merced, CA · ~30 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Belkorp Ag - Merced runs at 206% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Belkorp Ag - Merced: 4.5 TCR = 206% of Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Belkorp Ag - Merced safety composite

Belkorp Ag - Merced scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.8

2021→2024

Belkorp Ag - Merced injury rate improved

Belkorp Ag - Merced's TCR fell 2.8 from 10.5 in 2021 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=10.5 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=7.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Merced, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.5 · 206% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #14/27
  • PHOTO Adair
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Adair (0.0 TCR gap)

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Belkorp Ag - Merced in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Belkorp Ag - Merced averages 4.5 TCR (206% of the Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Belkorp Ag - Merced TCR series: 2021=10.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Belkorp Ag - Merced falls in its industry

700 Planting machinery and equipme establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 27 Planting machinery and equipme employers in California.

Belkorp Ag - Merced (30 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Belkorp Ag - Merced
Belkorp Ag - Merced (30 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Belkorp Ag - Merced has fewer employees than the Planting machinery and equipment, farm-t median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 7.7 7.7 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 10.5 3.5 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · CA · Merced

700 Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers 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 Adair 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SunSouth Donalsonville 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Richmond Store 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oskaloosa 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE BZNUR 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1780 San Juan Rd. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charter Oaks 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenfields Turf, Inc. 30 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 8027604 Heartland Automotive 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Imperial Privacy Systems LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mac Fasteners KS 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicago Tube and Iron Company Des Moines 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE CRC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gary & Sons Inc 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vermont Coffee 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hyatt House Pittsburgh /Shadyside 30 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. 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.