Framing contractors · Illinois

Merit Contractors, LLC 2016

Antioch, IL · ~117 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Contractors, LLC 2016 runs at 350% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Framing contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Merit Contractors, LLC 2016: 9.8 TCR = 350% of Framing contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Contractors, LLC 2016 safety composite

Merit Contractors, LLC 2016 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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 Contractors, LLC 2016: 8.8 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.45× in 2022

Merit Contractors, LLC 2016's TCR rose 0.8 from 8.8 in 2019 to 9.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238130 · Antioch, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 350% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #21/27
  • PHOTO Diablo Range Framing…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Diablo Range Framing, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merit Contractors, LLC 2016 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Contractors, LLC 2016 averages 9.8 TCR (350% of the Framing contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Merit Contractors, LLC 2016 TCR series: 2019=8.8 · 2020=10.5 · 2021=10.3 · 2022=9.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Merit Contractors, LLC 2016 falls in its industry

387 Framing contractors establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 27 Framing contractors employers in Illinois.

Merit Contractors, LLC 2016 (117 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Merit Contractors, LLC 2016
Merit Contractors, LLC 2016 (117 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Merit Contractors, LLC 2016 has more employees than the Framing contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2022 9.6 4.4 11 0 0
2021 10.3 3.4 12 0 0
2020 10.5 7.7 11 0 0
2019 8.8 3.3 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238130 · IL · Antioch

387 Framing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 28 employers in Antioch, IL · 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 Diablo Range Framing, Inc. 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vap Construction 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colt Builders Corp. 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Time Frame, Inc. 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2508-Waterman, IL 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE 01 - Walsh Construction Company 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Facebook DKL 3|5|6 21120003 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Power Services - Exelon, Byron Station 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Antioch Handi-Foil 1,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5199 349 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5199 335 FTE
CITY-NEAR Antioch 228 FTE
NAT-TCR 055298-National City Po 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 266331-Min-Powderhorn Sta 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 115190-Lehigh Acres Po 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-AA-DEN-DENVER-DEN-TRML 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rexam Beverage Can St.Paul 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Howard Shockey and Sons 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountain Top Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3265 Family Fare (Mtn View,Rapid City,Sd) 117 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.