Employer · Michigan

Merchant Excavating, Inc.

Alma, MI · ~27 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merchant Excavating, Inc. runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

Merchant Excavating, Inc.: 2.5 TCR = 91% of industry BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merchant Excavating, Inc. safety composite

Merchant Excavating, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Merchant Excavating, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Merchant Excavating, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=5.4 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Alma, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 91% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #28/55
  • PHOTO Doernemann Construct…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Doernemann Construction Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merchant Excavating, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merchant Excavating, Inc. averages 2.5 TCR (91% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Merchant Excavating, Inc. TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=5.4 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Merchant Excavating, Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 industry establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 55 industry employers in Michigan.

Merchant Excavating, Inc. (27 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Merchant Excavating, Inc.
Merchant Excavating, Inc. (27 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Merchant Excavating, Inc. has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 6.3 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 5.4 5.4 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · MI · Alma

1,750 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 53 employers in Alma, MI · 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 Doernemann Construction Inc 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CONSTRUCTION 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR F&K Construction 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pleasants Construction Inc. 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Badger Evergreen Nursery LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE K Drive Greenhouse Co 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (MO) 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Luurtsema Sales Inc. 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR MidMichigan Medical Center-Gratiot 616 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAC Group - Alma Plant 461 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avalon & Tahoe Manufacturing 428 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1422 249 FTE
NAT-TCR Resolute of Tennessee Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Allentown PA 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR SA Recycling Huntsville 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MAC 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brown Electric, Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Insulation From Hale 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thomas Concrete of Georgia Tucker 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE NA-US-CA-Livermore-800 Atlantis Street-Warehouse 27 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, 2018. 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.