Framing contractors · Illinois

Merit Contractors, LLC

Antioch, IL · ~156 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Contractors, LLC runs at 601% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Framing contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Merit Contractors, LLC: 16.8 TCR = 601% of Framing contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Contractors, LLC safety composite

Merit Contractors, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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: 13.1 → 20.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 20.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2024

Merit Contractors, LLC's TCR rose 7.4 from 13.1 in 2023 to 20.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.05× 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 16.8 · 601% of ind

  • DART 17.7 DART
  • RANK #24/27
  • PHOTO Blunier Builders, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~156 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blunier Builders, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Merit Contractors, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Contractors, LLC averages 16.8 TCR (601% 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 TCR series: 2023=13.1 · 2024=20.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Merit Contractors, LLC falls in its industry

387 Framing contractors establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #24 safest of 27 Framing contractors employers in Illinois.

Merit Contractors, LLC (156 employees, TCR 16.8) 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
Merit Contractors, LLC (156 employees, TCR 16.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Merit Contractors, LLC 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
2024 20.5 17.7 29 0 0
2023 13.1 4.1 16 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 Blunier Builders, Inc. 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Furtmann Bros LLC 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Circle M Contractors 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Construction Southwest of CA, Inc. 16.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southside Soapbox 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Global 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Plastic Corporation, Inc. 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Permobil/Roho 156 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 Hardwood Creations - Main Office 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0206 Los Angeles 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Commonwealth Senior Living at King's Grant 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Alb-Ground Ops 16.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jamestown Container Rochester, Inc. 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acadian - Fleet/Materials 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE WIKA Instrument Houston 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE MOC and PHPD 156 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.