Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum · California

Merit Aluminum Inc (Building #2)

Corona, CA · ~161 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Aluminum Inc (Building #2) runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum workplace, earning a grade D.

Merit Aluminum Inc (Building #2): 4.4 TCR = 132% of Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Aluminum Inc (Building #2) safety composite

Merit Aluminum Inc (Building #2) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2023→2024

Merit Aluminum Inc (Building #2) injury rate improved

Merit Aluminum Inc (Building #2)'s TCR fell 0.7 from 4.7 in 2023 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.7 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331318 · Corona, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 132% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO Bellwood Extrusion P…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bellwood Extrusion Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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Merit Aluminum Inc (Building #2) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Aluminum Inc (Building #2) averages 4.4 TCR (132% of the Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum BLS benchmark).

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

Merit Aluminum Inc (Building #2) TCR series: 2023=4.7 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Merit Aluminum Inc (Building #2) falls in its industry

204 Aluminum bar made by extruding establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 11 Aluminum bar made by extruding employers in California.

Merit Aluminum Inc (Building #2) (161 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Merit Aluminum Inc (Building #2)
Merit Aluminum Inc (Building #2) (161 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Merit Aluminum Inc (Building #2) has more employees than the Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 4.0 4.0 7 0 0
2023 4.7 2.8 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331318 · CA · Corona

204 Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 409 employers in Corona, 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 Bellwood Extrusion Plant 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Catalina Cylinders Garden Grove 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crown Extrusions - Norex 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nanshan America AAT LLC 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE La Valle Sabbia, Inc. 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE El Espinal FLC 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henry Avocado Corporation 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-SONGS Station 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monster Energy Company 2535 Anselmo Dr 2,572 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monster Energy Company 2,388 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monster Energy Company - Anselmo Dr, Corona 2,335 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 289 1,587 FTE
NAT-TCR Shenandoah Industrial Rubber Company 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SVRC Industries, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sk Food Group - Rno 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Solid Waste Landfill & Recycling 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE STR0016 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Romeiro's Landscaping 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harris Rebar Placing LLC 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE A.S.K. Foods, Inc. West Plant 161 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.