Appliances, surgical, merchant wholesalers · Texas

Merit Pearland TX

Houston, TX · ~163 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Pearland TX runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Appliances, surgical, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Merit Pearland TX: 2.0 TCR = 89% of Appliances, surgical, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Pearland TX safety composite

Merit Pearland TX scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−1.6

2023→2024

Merit Pearland TX injury rate improved

Merit Pearland TX's TCR fell 1.6 from 2.7 in 2023 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.7 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423450 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #29/58
  • PHOTO Mohawk Hospital Equi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~163 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mohawk Hospital Equipment (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merit Pearland TX in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Pearland TX averages 2.0 TCR (89% of the Appliances, surgical, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Merit Pearland TX TCR series: 2023=2.7 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Merit Pearland TX falls in its industry

754 Appliances, surgical, merchant establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 58 Appliances, surgical, merchant employers in Texas.

Merit Pearland TX (163 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 Pearland TX
Merit Pearland TX (163 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Merit Pearland TX has more employees than the Appliances, surgical, merchant wholesale median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 1.2 0.6 2 0 0
2023 2.7 0.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423450 · TX · Houston

754 Appliances, surgical, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 Mohawk Hospital Equipment 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal Health 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 013G - ORLANDO FAS 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stryker Wright - Phoenix, AZ 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE RiceTec Alvin Research Station 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freeport LNG Development LP 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oak Grove Steam Electric Station 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pattern Energy Group LP 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Romeoville, IL 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR International Environmental Corporation 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lorain County Landfill 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Formtek Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Careone at Cresskill 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Philadelphia 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canam Steel Corporation 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elite Manufacturing Technologies, LLC 163 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.