Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing · Texas

Meridian Brick-Elgin Plant-2 Meridian

Elgin, TX · ~33 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meridian Brick-Elgin Plant-2 Meridian runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Meridian Brick-Elgin Plant-2 Meridian: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meridian Brick-Elgin Plant-2 Meridian safety composite

Meridian Brick-Elgin Plant-2 Meridian scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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)
C 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−7.4

2017→2020

Meridian Brick-Elgin Plant-2 Meridian injury rate improved

Meridian Brick-Elgin Plant-2 Meridian's TCR fell 7.4 from 7.4 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.4 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=2.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Elgin, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/29
  • PHOTO Haworth Inc-Flooring
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Haworth Inc-Flooring (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meridian Brick-Elgin Plant-2 Meridian in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meridian Brick-Elgin Plant-2 Meridian averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Meridian Brick-Elgin Plant-2 Meridian TCR series: 2017=7.4 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=2 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Meridian Brick-Elgin Plant-2 Meridian falls in its industry

307 Bricks (i.e., common, face, gl establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 29 Bricks (i.e., common, face, gl employers in Texas.

Meridian Brick-Elgin Plant-2 Meridian (33 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Meridian Brick-Elgin Plant-2 Meridian
Meridian Brick-Elgin Plant-2 Meridian (33 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Meridian Brick-Elgin Plant-2 Meridian has fewer employees than the Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, holl 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 7.4 5.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · TX · Elgin

307 Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 23 employers in Elgin, TX · 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 Haworth Inc-Flooring 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 110 North Main Street 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meridian Bricks-Gleason 060-Meridian 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Shale Denver Brick 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE SW Seed Company New Deal 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treesap Farms LLC - Houston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tejas Feeders LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrims LIVE OPERATIONS 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3170 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3170 217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elgin Brick Plants 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elgin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 101 FTE
NAT-TCR Schmid Mechanical 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tioga Community Care Center 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairmont Plant 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Alabama Cullman Yutaka Technologies 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Haarslev Kansas City 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE BMC-Grand Forks 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beck Cabinet Company 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forsyth 33 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.