Electrical contractors · Iowa

Merit Electric Ltd

Iowa City, IA · ~32 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Merit Electric Ltd runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Electrical contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Merit Electric Ltd: 4.5 TCR = 161% of Electrical contractors BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Electric Ltd safety composite

Merit Electric Ltd scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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 Ltd: 2.8 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.03× in 2024

Merit Electric Ltd's TCR rose 6.4 from 2.8 in 2017 to 9.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Iowa City, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 161% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #42/61
  • PHOTO Titan Systems, Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Titan Systems, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Iowa employers → · Look up another →

Merit Electric Ltd in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Electric Ltd averages 4.5 TCR (161% 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 Ltd TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=11.9 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=9.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Merit Electric Ltd falls in its industry

4,550 Electrical contractors establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 61 Electrical contractors employers in Iowa.

Merit Electric Ltd (32 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 Ltd
Merit Electric Ltd (32 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 Ltd 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
2024 9.2 9.2 1 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.7 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 11.9 0.0 3 0 0
2019 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · IA · Iowa City

4,550 Electrical contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 131 employers in Iowa City, IA · 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 Titan Systems, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gary Houston Electric Company 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Celerity 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hickman Electric, Inc. 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE GSC Agribusiness 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nursery Department- Fuss Office 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley North 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Washington 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1918-19187610 29,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iowa City North Dodge (ICND) 940 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8010516-P and G Iowa City 772 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Iowa City 721 FTE
NAT-TCR Compassionate Care Home Health Agency 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Syracuse Academy Charter 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bio-Rad Laboratories - Maltby 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayo Clinic Florida 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bbb 15750 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE the Melanson Company, A Tecta America Company LLC DBA A.C. Hathorne Company 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE P&S Transportation Columbiana, OH 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid-Valley Gravel Co 32 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, 2019, 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.