Aluminum rod made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills · California

Merit Foundry

Adelanto, CA · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Foundry runs at 568% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Aluminum rod made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills workplace, earning a grade F.

Merit Foundry: 18.7 TCR = 568% of Aluminum rod made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Foundry safety composite

Merit Foundry scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.1 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.2

2023→2024

Merit Foundry injury rate improved

Merit Foundry's TCR fell 9.2 from 23.3 in 2023 to 14.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 23.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=23.3 · 2024=14.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331318 · Adelanto, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.7 · 568% of ind

  • DART 10.1 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO Bristol Aluminum Co
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bristol Aluminum Co (3.3 TCR gap)

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Merit Foundry in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Foundry averages 18.7 TCR (568% of the Aluminum rod made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills BLS benchmark).

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

Merit Foundry TCR series: 2023=23.3 · 2024=14.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Merit Foundry falls in its industry

204 Aluminum rod made in integrate establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 11 Aluminum rod made in integrate employers in California.

Merit Foundry (45 employees, TCR 18.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Merit Foundry
Merit Foundry (45 employees, TCR 18.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Merit Foundry has fewer employees than the Aluminum rod made in integrated secondar median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 14.1 10.1 7 0 0
2023 23.3 12.7 8 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331318 · CA · Adelanto

204 Aluminum rod made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 41 employers in Adelanto, CA · 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 Bristol Aluminum Co 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Team Pride Extrusions 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PRL Aluminum 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zarbana Aluminum Extrusion, LLC 14.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Salinas Transplant Company 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Firma Farm 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donald Beeman Farm 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Mist Farms, LP 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4238-196 578 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Adelanto 501 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - El Mirage 464 FTE
CITY-NEAR 196 952 - GEO WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE-ADELANTO EAST 351 FTE
NAT-TCR Meeker Manor Rehabilitation Center 18.7 TCR
NAT-TCR HMC Performance Coatings 18.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Rose Care Center 18.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fellowship Village 18.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE AmeriKen Die Supply, Inc 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Education Center 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tucker Industries Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northeast Printing & Distribution Co Inc 45 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.