Employer · Pennsylvania

Merck-UG Cafe

North Wales, PA · ~34 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merck-UG Cafe runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

Merck-UG Cafe: 2.3 TCR = 77% of industry BLS 3.0 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merck-UG Cafe safety composite

Merck-UG Cafe scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Merck-UG Cafe: 3.2 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2024

Merck-UG Cafe's TCR rose 1.1 from 3.2 in 2018 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · North Wales, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 77% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #129/463
  • PHOTO SODEXO AT COLLINSVIL…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SODEXO AT COLLINSVILLE SCH DIST (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merck-UG Cafe in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merck-UG Cafe averages 2.3 TCR (77% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Merck-UG Cafe TCR series: 2018=3.2 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.0

Where Merck-UG Cafe falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #129 safest of 463 industry employers in Pennsylvania.

Merck-UG Cafe (34 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Merck-UG Cafe
Merck-UG Cafe (34 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Merck-UG Cafe has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 4.3 2.2 2 0 0
2023 8.6 5.7 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · PA · North Wales

6,952 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 62 employers in North Wales, PA · 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 SODEXO AT COLLINSVILLE SCH DIST 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR OK BAPT UN 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT LINFIELD UNIVERSITY 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PITT- Pettersen Catering 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kaolin Mushroom Farms - West Grove Facility 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE George Didden Greenhouse 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreider Farms - Dairy 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.W. Sauder Inc 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Upper Gwynedd, PA Offices 6,620 FTE
CITY-NEAR Abramson Center for Jewish Life 528 FTE
CITY-NEAR Horsham Center for Jewish Life 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1425 Horsham SNF Operations LLC 392 FTE
NAT-TCR Ok Bapt Un 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CRS Washington 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ingalls Memorial Hospital EVS 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CRS New England 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fidelity Nmw 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE TAMU CC Mn 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE U of Ark-Catering 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE VCU Monroe Dorms 34 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. 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.