Electrical work · Texas

Merit Electric Houston

Houston, TX · ~159 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Electric Houston runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Electrical work workplace, earning a grade A.

Merit Electric Houston: 0.9 TCR = 34% of Electrical work BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Electric Houston safety composite

Merit Electric Houston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−1.1

2016→2019

Merit Electric Houston injury rate improved

Merit Electric Houston's TCR fell 1.1 from 1.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.1 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 34% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #114/424
  • PHOTO JMEG, LLC - DFW
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~159 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JMEG, LLC - DFW (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merit Electric Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Electric Houston averages 0.9 TCR (34% of the Electrical work BLS benchmark).

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

Merit Electric Houston TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Merit Electric Houston falls in its industry

4,550 Electrical work establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #114 safest of 424 Electrical work employers in Texas.

Merit Electric Houston (159 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Merit Electric Houston
Merit Electric Houston (159 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Merit Electric Houston has more employees than the Electrical work median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.8 0.0 2 0 0
2016 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · TX · Houston

4,550 Electrical work employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 JMEG, LLC - DFW 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gulf Electric Company Inc., of Mobile 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woods Electric Co. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake Erie Electric of Columbus, Inc. 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sand Revolution Operations 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE FORT HOOD 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5811-CITGO Corpus Christi 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mooring USA 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Administration 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Andrews Senior Solutions 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR BluRoc, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 50071 - Capstone Unfi Atlanta 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE N Charleston Service Center 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Standard Machine and Manufacturing 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foundry 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE DAVIE 6565 Nova Dr 159 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: 2019, 2018, 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.