Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum · California

Merit Aluminum Inc.

Corona, CA · ~176 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Aluminum Inc. runs at 187% 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.: 6.2 TCR = 187% of Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Aluminum Inc. safety composite

Merit Aluminum Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−13.2

2022→2024

Merit Aluminum Inc. injury rate improved

Merit Aluminum Inc.'s TCR fell 13.2 from 14.9 in 2022 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=14.9 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 187% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO Aero Transportation …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~176 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aero Transportation Products, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Merit Aluminum Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Aluminum Inc. averages 6.2 TCR (187% 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. TCR series: 2022=14.9 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Merit Aluminum Inc. falls in its industry

204 Aluminum bar made by extruding establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #7 safest of 11 Aluminum bar made by extruding employers in California.

Merit Aluminum Inc. (176 employees, TCR 6.2) 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.
Merit Aluminum Inc. (176 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Merit Aluminum Inc. 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 1.7 1.7 3 0 0
2023 1.9 1.9 4 0 0
2022 14.9 12.6 33 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 Aero Transportation Products, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vitex Extrusion LLC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pennex Aluminum Company - Wellsville 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flextrude Aluminum Shapes, LLC 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mt. View Ag 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-South Bay S/C 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE LADWP 2311 FAIRFAX 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE Matt Construction Corporation 176 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 14 Des Moines, IA 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Txlon - Longview 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale East Mesa 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Homestead 10207 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Moore Excavation Inc. 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Celgard, LLC 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Incas - Castleton 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Department of Finance 176 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, 2022. 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.