Engineered Wood Member Manufacturing · Texas

Mercedes TX Truss

Mercedes, TX · ~33 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercedes TX Truss runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Engineered Wood Member Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Mercedes TX Truss: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Engineered Wood Member Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercedes TX Truss safety composite

Mercedes TX Truss scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−2.6

2017→2024

Mercedes TX Truss injury rate improved

Mercedes TX Truss's TCR fell 2.6 from 2.6 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.6 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321215 · Mercedes, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/23
  • PHOTO Middlesex NC Truss
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Middlesex NC Truss (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mercedes TX Truss in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercedes TX Truss averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Engineered Wood Member Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Mercedes TX Truss TCR series: 2017=2.6 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=0 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Mercedes TX Truss falls in its industry

143 Engineered Wood Member Manufac establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 23 Engineered Wood Member Manufac employers in Texas.

Mercedes TX Truss (33 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Mercedes TX Truss
Mercedes TX Truss (33 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Mercedes TX Truss has fewer employees than the Engineered Wood Member Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.6 0.0 0 1 0
2020 8.8 8.8 4 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.1 0.0 1 1 0
2017 2.6 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321215 · TX · Mercedes

143 Engineered Wood Member Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 15 employers in Mercedes, TX · 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 Middlesex NC Truss 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Paso TX Truss 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Muskegon MI Truss 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake City FL Truss 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE SW Seed Company New Deal 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treesap Farms LLC - Houston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tejas Feeders LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrims LIVE OPERATIONS 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercedes Office 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harlingen TX FXFE-HRL 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercedes Location 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mid Valley Nursing and Rehabilitaiton 98 FTE
NAT-TCR L.A. Barrier & Son, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Arizona Western Main Fee 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Horizon Carpentry Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Midwest Finishing, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arlington WA Yard 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bend OR Yard 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pelham AL Yard 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kaplan Industries Inc 33 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.