Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Merfish United Ipswich

Ipswich, MA · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merfish United Ipswich runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Merfish United Ipswich: 1.2 TCR = 53% of Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merfish United Ipswich safety composite

Merfish United Ipswich scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Merfish United Ipswich: 0.0 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.99× in 2022

Merfish United Ipswich's TCR rose 2.3 from 0.0 in 2021 to 2.3 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Ipswich, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.2 · 53% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #3/15
  • PHOTO Precision Strip, Inc…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Precision Strip, Inc. Talladega (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merfish United Ipswich in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merfish United Ipswich averages 1.2 TCR (53% of the Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Merfish United Ipswich TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=2.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Merfish United Ipswich falls in its industry

1,299 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 15 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal employers in Massachusetts.

Merfish United Ipswich (54 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Merfish United Ipswich
Merfish United Ipswich (54 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Merfish United Ipswich has more employees than the Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2022 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · MA · Ipswich

1,299 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 22 employers in Ipswich, MA · 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 Precision Strip, Inc. Talladega 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kloeckner Metals Processing 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSC - Grand Prairie 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shinsho American Corporation - Novi 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Pittsfield 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE 130 West Street Waltham-MAAG 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keith Construction Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Truss Engineering Corporation 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR EBSCO Information Services 1,388 FTE
CITY-NEAR New England BioLabs, Inc. (Ipswich Headquarters) 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trillium Valves USA 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Little Enterprises LLC 100 FTE
NAT-TCR Cangene bioPharma, LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pishny Restoration Services 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR World Energy BIOX Biofuels LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR United Piston Ring 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Grayson View 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid-Tec, Inc 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Upside Innovations - West Chester 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE NJ - Route 57 54 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: 2022, 2021. 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.