Wire fencing and fencing accessories merchant wholesalers · California

Merchants Metals (M21-Riverside)

Riverside, CA · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merchants Metals (M21-Riverside) runs at 498% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Wire fencing and fencing accessories merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Merchants Metals (M21-Riverside): 10.9 TCR = 498% of Wire fencing and fencing accessories merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merchants Metals (M21-Riverside) safety composite

Merchants Metals (M21-Riverside) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Merchants Metals (M21-Riverside) held a steady TCR band

Merchants Metals (M21-Riverside)'s TCR held near 0.3 from 10.8 in 2023 to 11.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=10.8 · 2024=11.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423390 · Riverside, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 498% of ind

  • DART 11.1 DART
  • RANK #23/26
  • PHOTO TCH San Antonio
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TCH San Antonio (0.7 TCR gap)

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Merchants Metals (M21-Riverside) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merchants Metals (M21-Riverside) averages 10.9 TCR (498% of the Wire fencing and fencing accessories merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Merchants Metals (M21-Riverside) TCR series: 2023=10.8 · 2024=11.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Merchants Metals (M21-Riverside) falls in its industry

168 Wire fencing and fencing acces establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 26 Wire fencing and fencing acces employers in California.

Merchants Metals (M21-Riverside) (22 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Merchants Metals (M21-Riverside)
Merchants Metals (M21-Riverside) (22 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Merchants Metals (M21-Riverside) has fewer employees than the Wire fencing and fencing accessories mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 11.1 11.1 2 0 0
2023 10.8 10.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423390 · CA · Riverside

168 Wire fencing and fencing accessories merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 536 employers in Riverside, 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 TCH San Antonio 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sharon Fence (010-Sharon) 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corporate 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jones Heartz Building Supply 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE LaGrande Farms 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Del Carlo Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Linda Vista Farms 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOUNTAIN VIEW FARM SHOP 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Riverside 8,676 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-21 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Community Hospital 2,354 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08681351 RIVERSIDE MED CENTER 2,349 FTE
NAT-TCR Primrose Retirement Community of Grand Island 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Primrose Retirement Community of Marion 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Gittleman Construction and Maintenance 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR American House - Macedonia 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Femia IRA 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shakley Mechanical Inc 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peabody Engineering, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hajoca 580 22 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.