Vitamins, uncompounded, manufacturing · California

MeriCal Orange

Orange, CA · ~259 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MeriCal Orange runs at 221% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vitamins, uncompounded, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

MeriCal Orange: 7.3 TCR = 221% of Vitamins, uncompounded, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MeriCal Orange safety composite

MeriCal Orange scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.7

2018→2022

MeriCal Orange injury rate improved

MeriCal Orange's TCR fell 7.7 from 11.2 in 2018 to 3.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=11.2 · 2022=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325411 · Orange, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 221% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #30/35
  • PHOTO FM Labs, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~259 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FM Labs, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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MeriCal Orange in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MeriCal Orange averages 7.3 TCR (221% of the Vitamins, uncompounded, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

MeriCal Orange TCR series: 2018=11.2 · 2022=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where MeriCal Orange falls in its industry

260 Vitamins, uncompounded, manufa establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 35 Vitamins, uncompounded, manufa employers in California.

MeriCal Orange (259 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate MeriCal Orange
MeriCal Orange (259 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 2.4

MeriCal Orange has more employees than the Vitamins, uncompounded, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 3.5 0.0 7 1 0
2018 11.2 6.1 12 10 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325411 · CA · Orange

260 Vitamins, uncompounded, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 319 employers in Orange, 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 FM Labs, LLC 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR THG International 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MeriCal Anaheim 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Equinox Nutraceutical 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harvest 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Bay Municipal Utility District - Wastewater 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clark Pacific - West Sacramento 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raymond-Southern California, Inc. 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Irvine Health 6,191 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHOC - CHildren's Hospital of Orange County 4,962 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHOC Children's Orange 3,693 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHOC Children's Orange V2 3,652 FTE
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0160 JBS USA - Green Bay 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0190 Cargill - Butler 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Newfolden Independent School District 441 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Residence 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coats Pharr HP 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE Century Martial Arts 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dassault Aircraft Services - Wilmington 259 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.