Animal shelters · Kansas

GPSPCA Merriam

Merriam, KS · ~56 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.1
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GPSPCA Merriam runs at 577% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal shelters workplace, earning a grade F.

GPSPCA Merriam: 12.1 TCR = 577% of Animal shelters BLS 2.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GPSPCA Merriam safety composite

GPSPCA Merriam scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 12.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

GPSPCA Merriam: 9.7 → 15.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

GPSPCA Merriam's TCR rose 6.2 from 9.7 in 2019 to 15.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812910 · Merriam, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 577% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P60
  • PHOTO Animal Services
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Animal Services (0.1 TCR gap)

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GPSPCA Merriam in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GPSPCA Merriam averages 12.1 TCR (577% of the Animal shelters BLS benchmark).

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

GPSPCA Merriam TCR series: 2019=9.7 · 2020=10.3 · 2021=11.9 · 2022=12.7 · 2023=15.9 · BLS 2.1

Where GPSPCA Merriam falls in its industry

65 Animal shelters establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 15.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
GPSPCA Merriam (56 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 15.8 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 0200400600 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate GPSPCA Merriam
GPSPCA Merriam (56 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 15.8

GPSPCA Merriam has more employees than the Animal shelters median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 15.8. 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
2023 15.9 0.0 6 1 0
2022 12.7 0.0 5 1 0
2021 11.9 0.0 5 0 0
2020 10.3 0.0 4 0 0
2019 9.7 1.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812910 · KS · Merriam

65 Animal shelters employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 24 employers in Merriam, KS · 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 Animal Services 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR WAG HOTELS - San Diego 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Methuen ACAC 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palm Valley Animal Society, PAWS 12.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Western Cooperative Electric Assoc. 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE GBA Builders LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ebert Construction Co., Inc. 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Borton LC 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR IBT, Inc. 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cohen Esrey 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR 96920030-103 DS BUS LINES, INC.-MERRIAM 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR IKEA #374 Merriam 201 FTE
NAT-TCR Atlanta Marble Manufacturing 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Isd #698 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nri USA, LLC - Li 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rec. Plant 1365 W. 2300 No. 12.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Providence Home Care Waco 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE HC North Central Missouri Columbia 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compassus - Grand Blanc 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE HC Philadelphia Newtown Square 56 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.