Nipples, metal, made from purchased pipe · Ohio

Merit Brass Company

Richmond Heights, OH · ~181 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Brass Company runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Nipples, metal, made from purchased pipe workplace, earning a grade B.

Merit Brass Company: 2.6 TCR = 80% of Nipples, metal, made from purchased pipe BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Brass Company safety composite

Merit Brass Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

Merit Brass Company: 2.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2023

Merit Brass Company's TCR rose 0.5 from 2.0 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332996 · Richmond Heights, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 80% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #7/21
  • PHOTO Team Industries, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~181 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Team Industries, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merit Brass Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Brass Company averages 2.6 TCR (80% of the Nipples, metal, made from purchased pipe BLS benchmark).

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

Merit Brass Company TCR series: 2016=2 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Merit Brass Company falls in its industry

337 Nipples, metal, made from purc establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 21 Nipples, metal, made from purc employers in Ohio.

Merit Brass Company (181 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Merit Brass Company
Merit Brass Company (181 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Merit Brass Company has more employees than the Nipples, metal, made from purchased pipe median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2023 2.5 1.9 4 0 0
2022 3.4 3.4 5 0 0
2016 2.0 0.8 3 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332996 · OH · Richmond Heights

337 Nipples, metal, made from purchased pipe employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 13 employers in Richmond Heights, OH · 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 Team Industries, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pinnacle Machine Holdings - Sheldon Rd 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vallourec Star Muskogee, OK 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoyt, Brumm & Link 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE FirstEnergy Generation Support Staff 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Athens Foods Inc 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE A&P Technology 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buckeye Diamond Logistics 181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flexjet Richmond Heights Admin Facility 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Waterford at Richmond Heights 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richmond Heights Place 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Tranzonic Companies - Outside Sales 146 FTE
NAT-TCR NAPP Roanoke - 003 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincoln Terminal-DOT 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Groendyke Transport - Borger 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SS-Installation 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Guilford County - Public Health 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hoffman Estates 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greater Peoria Mass Transit District 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roanoke 181 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: 2023, 2022, 2016. 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.