Employer · Pennsylvania

Merck-WP-53-Cafe

West Point, PA · ~47 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merck-WP-53-Cafe runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

Merck-WP-53-Cafe: 3.5 TCR = 115% of industry BLS 3.0 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merck-WP-53-Cafe safety composite

Merck-WP-53-Cafe scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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)
D 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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-WP-53-Cafe: 0.0 → 9.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.39× in 2024

Merck-WP-53-Cafe's TCR rose 9.9 from 0.0 in 2018 to 9.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · West Point, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 115% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #200/463
  • PHOTO Burke County PS
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Burke County PS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merck-WP-53-Cafe in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merck-WP-53-Cafe averages 3.5 TCR (115% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Merck-WP-53-Cafe TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=6.4 · 2024=9.9 · BLS 3.0

Where Merck-WP-53-Cafe falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 51% 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 #200 safest of 463 industry employers in Pennsylvania.

Merck-WP-53-Cafe (47 employees, TCR 3.5) 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-WP-53-Cafe
Merck-WP-53-Cafe (47 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Merck-WP-53-Cafe has more 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 9.9 8.3 6 0 0
2023 6.4 4.3 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 7.8 2.6 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · PA · West Point

6,952 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 11 employers in West Point, 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 Burke County PS 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4037 University of Detroit Mercy 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 640855500 PHOENIX CONVENTION CENTER 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Croswell-lexington Co* 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dan Schantz Greenhouse (Rising Sun, MD) 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hillendale Services, LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mansfield 14235 US Route 6, Mansfield, PA 16933 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Division Wilkes Barre 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colorcon, Inc. 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACTS Retirement-Life Communities-Corporate Office 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merck West Point 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR SBM-JLL Merck West Point 90 FTE
NAT-TCR TAMU CC Mn 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TAMU W Texas Jn 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Burke County PS 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Delray Medical Center 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hl 1919 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Intel RA3 Cafe 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE UCO Resident Dining 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Charles Schl Dist 47 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.