Electrical contractors · Colorado

Merit Electric, Inc. - Fort Collins

Fort Collins, CO · ~59 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Electric, Inc. - Fort Collins runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Electrical contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Merit Electric, Inc. - Fort Collins: 4.5 TCR = 163% of Electrical contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Electric, Inc. - Fort Collins safety composite

Merit Electric, Inc. - Fort Collins scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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 Electric, Inc. - Fort Collins: 5.7 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.28× in 2019

Merit Electric, Inc. - Fort Collins's TCR rose 2.0 from 5.7 in 2016 to 7.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Fort Collins, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 163% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #82/135
  • PHOTO PECI OFFICE
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PECI OFFICE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merit Electric, Inc. - Fort Collins in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Electric, Inc. - Fort Collins averages 4.5 TCR (163% of the Electrical contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Merit Electric, Inc. - Fort Collins TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=7.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Merit Electric, Inc. - Fort Collins falls in its industry

4,550 Electrical contractors establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #82 safest of 135 Electrical contractors employers in Colorado.

Merit Electric, Inc. - Fort Collins (59 employees, TCR 4.5) 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, Inc. - Fort Collins
Merit Electric, Inc. - Fort Collins (59 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Merit Electric, Inc. - Fort Collins has fewer employees than the Electrical contractors median and a higher 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 7.7 5.8 4 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.8 1.6 3 0 0
2016 5.7 5.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · CO · Fort Collins

4,550 Electrical contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 268 employers in Fort Collins, CO · 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 PECI OFFICE 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Construction 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FSE 2 Broadway 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Technology for Education, LLC 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Faulkner Dairy II 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE FRESH HARVEST INC- COLORADO 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE CAM Industrial Solutions @ Suncor Commerce City 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worley Field Services at Suncor Commerce City 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poudre Valley Hospital 1,772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Collins 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Belgium Brewing Company: Fort Collins 759 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woodward Inc. - Lincoln Campus Facility 725 FTE
NAT-TCR Commercial Works Louisville 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR kj's market chester 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal CG - Moreno Valley CG 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Blaire House of Tewksbury Assisted Living Facility 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mt Juliet 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summit 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE INA-Liverpool 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE kj's market quinby 59 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, 2017, 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.