Landscape installation services · California

Merchants Force, Inc.

Santa Ana, CA · ~139 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merchants Force, Inc. runs at 219% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Landscape installation services workplace, earning a grade F.

Merchants Force, Inc.: 9.9 TCR = 219% of Landscape installation services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merchants Force, Inc. safety composite

Merchants Force, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

TCR Δ

−12.5

2022→2024

Merchants Force, Inc. injury rate improved

Merchants Force, Inc.'s TCR fell 12.5 from 17.5 in 2022 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 17.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=17.5 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Santa Ana, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 219% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #329/448
  • PHOTO 5283 - Andover
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 5283 - Andover (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merchants Force, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merchants Force, Inc. averages 9.9 TCR (219% of the Landscape installation services BLS benchmark).

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

Merchants Force, Inc. TCR series: 2022=17.5 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=5 · BLS 4.5

Where Merchants Force, Inc. falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape installation service establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #329 safest of 448 Landscape installation service employers in California.

Merchants Force, Inc. (139 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Merchants Force, Inc.
Merchants Force, Inc. (139 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Merchants Force, Inc. has more employees than the Landscape installation services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 5.0 2.9 7 0 0
2023 7.1 3.0 7 0 0
2022 17.5 7.9 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · CA · Santa Ana

2,875 Landscape installation services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 492 employers in Santa Ana, 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 5283 - Andover 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 131731 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5338 - Spokane 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weisburg Landscape Maintenance - Office 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE PV Farming Operations, LLC 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE SVL - 01 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alexander Labor Inc 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-Antelope Valley S/C 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Think Together 2,496 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Santa Ana 1,472 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orange County/Los Angeles 1,072 FTE
CITY-NEAR 056937-SANTA ANA CA P&DC 920 FTE
NAT-TCR Polyurethane Machinery Corp 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Greenville 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Franz Bakery Springfield Division - Medford Depot and Outlet 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Inpt Psych 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dave Sinclair Ford 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alta Refrigeration, Inc. 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Current Electric Company 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Althoff Industries, Inc. 139 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. 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.