Employer · Mississippi

Merit Health River Oaks

Jackson, MS · ~57 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Health River Oaks runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Merit Health River Oaks: 0.9 TCR = 20% of industry BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Health River Oaks safety composite

Merit Health River Oaks scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2016→2020

Merit Health River Oaks injury rate improved

Merit Health River Oaks's TCR fell 1.8 from 1.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.8 · 2017=1.8 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561720 · Jackson, MS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 20% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/41
  • PHOTO MBM-6 Texas
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MBM-6 Texas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merit Health River Oaks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Health River Oaks averages 0.9 TCR (20% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Merit Health River Oaks TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=1.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Merit Health River Oaks falls in its industry

4,064 industry establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 41 industry employers in Mississippi.

Merit Health River Oaks (57 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Merit Health River Oaks
Merit Health River Oaks (57 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Merit Health River Oaks has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 - - 0 0 0
2017 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2016 1.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561720 · MS · Jackson

4,064 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 260 employers in Jackson, 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 MBM-6 Texas 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT ERLANGER PATIENT TRANSPORT 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR HCA Houston Healthcare Tomball - EVS 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 134870 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE TJ Beall Company 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rankin Network 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pine Belt Division Office 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premium Waters Jackson 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Dominic Jackson Memorial Hospital 2,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mississippi Baptist Medical Center 2,704 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Memorial Hospital - Mississippi Baptist Medical Center 2,566 FTE
CITY-NEAR MSJAC - JACKSON 1,458 FTE
NAT-TCR AK Steel - Rockport Works 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR AK Steel - Coshocton Works 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Houlihan's North 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Signature Flight Support Roanoke 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Orange Park Medical Center Transport 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frye Regional 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Christman Mid-Atlantic Constructors, Inc. - Virginia 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charolais Care IV, Inc. dba Lincoln County Care Center 57 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: 2020, 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.