Roofing contractors · Minnesota

Merit Contracting

Rochester, MN · ~69 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Contracting runs at 622% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Roofing contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Merit Contracting: 17.4 TCR = 622% of Roofing contractors BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Contracting safety composite

Merit Contracting scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Merit Contracting: 5.9 → 23.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 30.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2024

Merit Contracting's TCR rose 17.2 from 5.9 in 2017 to 23.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 30.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238160 · Rochester, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.4 · 622% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #27/27
  • PHOTO Turner Morris, Inc. …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Turner Morris, Inc. Silverthorne (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merit Contracting in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Contracting averages 17.4 TCR (622% of the Roofing contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Merit Contracting TCR series: 2017=5.9 · 2020=13.8 · 2021=7.2 · 2022=30.3 · 2023=24.2 · 2024=23.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Merit Contracting falls in its industry

1,723 Roofing contractors establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 27 Roofing contractors employers in Minnesota.

Merit Contracting (69 employees, TCR 17.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 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 050100150 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Merit Contracting
Merit Contracting (69 employees, TCR 17.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Merit Contracting has more employees than the Roofing contractors median and a higher 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
2024 23.1 7.7 15 0 0
2023 24.2 24.2 16 0 0
2022 30.3 15.2 18 0 0
2021 7.2 7.2 4 0 0
2020 13.8 13.8 8 0 0
2017 5.9 5.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238160 · MN · Rochester

1,723 Roofing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 290 employers in Rochester, MN · 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 Turner Morris, Inc. Silverthorne 17.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR J&B Installations, Inc. 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waynes Roofing & Sheet Metal 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alva Roofing Co. 17.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE WindLogics St. Paul 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Region Electric Cooperative 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Restoration Professionals, Inc 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Field & Shop 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Rochester 38,233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olmsted County 1,304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC 1,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS 823 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Portage - Department of Public Works 17.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SS Delivery Systems, LLC 17.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 3389 - Wynnewood 17.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring, Inc 17.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Perma-Fix Northwest, Inc. (PFNW) 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electronic Responsible Recyclers DBA ER2 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Liberty Casting Company-Curtis Street 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Idahoan Foods, LLC - Rupert Plant 69 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, 2021, 2020, 2017. 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.