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

Meridian Brick LLC-Salisbury 081/082/083- Meridian Brick LLC

Salisbury, NC · ~86 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meridian Brick LLC-Salisbury 081/082/083- Meridian Brick LLC runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Meridian Brick LLC-Salisbury 081/082/083- Meridian Brick LLC: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meridian Brick LLC-Salisbury 081/082/083- Meridian Brick LLC safety composite

Meridian Brick LLC-Salisbury 081/082/083- Meridian Brick LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

Meridian Brick LLC-Salisbury 081/082/083- Meridian Brick LLC: 0.0 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2020

Meridian Brick LLC-Salisbury 081/082/083- Meridian Brick LLC's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Salisbury, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO East Canton, OH (Man…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: East Canton, OH (Manufacturing) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meridian Brick LLC-Salisbury 081/082/083- Meridian Brick LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meridian Brick LLC-Salisbury 081/082/083- Meridian Brick LLC averages 1.3 TCR (40% 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 LLC-Salisbury 081/082/083- Meridian Brick LLC TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Meridian Brick LLC-Salisbury 081/082/083- Meridian Brick LLC falls in its industry

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

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 9 Bricks (i.e., common, face, gl employers in North Carolina.

Meridian Brick LLC-Salisbury 081/082/083- Meridian Brick LLC (86 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 LLC-Salisbury 081/082/083- Meridian Brick LLC
Meridian Brick LLC-Salisbury 081/082/083- Meridian Brick LLC (86 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Meridian Brick LLC-Salisbury 081/082/083- Meridian Brick LLC has more 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 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.8 3.8 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · NC · Salisbury

307 Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 180 employers in Salisbury, NC · 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 East Canton, OH (Manufacturing) 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Shale Brick Salisbury 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mees Distributors Inc 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Motawi Tileworks 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE LiveGreen, Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dreicor, Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asphalt Plants 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reeves Metrolina Region 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSCEXC 1,314 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Rowan Medical Center 1,176 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rowan County Government 1,151 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLT1 973 FTE
NAT-TCR Town & Country Grocers Corporate 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SDI Pittsboro 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Insteel Wire Products - Sanderson, FL 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Oak Grove Elementary 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE DOCCR-County Home School 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Williamson Street Grocery Cooperative North 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE GMB Plastics Inc. 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Service / Bird Crew 86 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.