Employer · Mississippi

Merit Health - Natch

Natchez, MS · ~24 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Health - Natch runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Merit Health - Natch: 4.1 TCR = 136% of industry BLS 3.0 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Health - Natch safety composite

Merit Health - Natch scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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 Health - Natch: 0.0 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Merit Health - Natch's TCR rose 6.2 from 0.0 in 2018 to 6.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Natchez, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 136% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #40/61
  • PHOTO SODEXO AT PUTNAM CIT…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SODEXO AT PUTNAM CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merit Health - Natch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Health - Natch averages 4.1 TCR (136% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Merit Health - Natch TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=6.1 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 3.0

Where Merit Health - Natch falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 61 industry employers in Mississippi.

Merit Health - Natch (24 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Merit Health - Natch
Merit Health - Natch (24 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Merit Health - Natch has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 6.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 5.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 5.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 6.1 6.1 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.1 5.1 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · MS · Natchez

6,952 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 44 employers in Natchez, MS · 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 SODEXO AT PUTNAM CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT USM BROOKS DINING 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NOVANT HEALTH FORSYT 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAYO CLINIC ST. MARYS 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Laurel Office MPC3301 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paramount Construction Group, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nicholas Acoustics & Specialty Company, Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE L&T Construction, Inc 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Natchez 6,182 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jordan Carriers 564 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADAMS COUNTY, MS 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR 874 329 FTE
NAT-TCR Novant Health Forsyt 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayo Clinic St. Marys 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Seattle Cherry Strt 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Weidmann Electrical Technology Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Intel OC6 Cafe 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Genentech SSF B33 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Genentech B35 Cafe 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Intel JF5 Cafe 24 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, 2018. 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.