Precision turned product manufacturing · Illinois

Merit Screw Machine Products Co

Broadview, IL · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Screw Machine Products Co runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Precision turned product manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Merit Screw Machine Products Co: 5.1 TCR = 155% of Precision turned product manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Screw Machine Products Co safety composite

Merit Screw Machine Products Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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 Screw Machine Products Co: 4.6 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2020

Merit Screw Machine Products Co's TCR rose 1.0 from 4.6 in 2019 to 5.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332721 · Broadview, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 155% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #27/44
  • PHOTO Autocam Corporation …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Autocam Corporation Dowagiac (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merit Screw Machine Products Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Screw Machine Products Co averages 5.1 TCR (155% of the Precision turned product manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Merit Screw Machine Products Co TCR series: 2019=4.6 · 2020=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Merit Screw Machine Products Co falls in its industry

464 Precision turned product manuf establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 44 Precision turned product manuf employers in Illinois.

Merit Screw Machine Products Co (24 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Merit Screw Machine Products Co
Merit Screw Machine Products Co (24 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Merit Screw Machine Products Co has fewer employees than the Precision turned product manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 5.6 5.6 1 0 0
2019 4.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332721 · IL · Broadview

464 Precision turned product manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 56 employers in Broadview, IL · 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 Autocam Corporation Dowagiac 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MST Manufacturing 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charleston Metal Products, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thuro Metal Products, Inc. 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE C70 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nelson Energy Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hecate Grid LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG DeKalb Reporting Center 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pure's Food Specialties LLC 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mullins Food Products 462 FTE
CITY-NEAR Robert Bosch LLC 397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Principal Manufacturing 363 FTE
NAT-TCR Gilbert 131 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Monterey One Water 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Town Of Middlefield Ct 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1070 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Courtyard by Marriott Cleveland Independence 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wausau Memory Care LLC dba Primrose Memory Care of Wausau 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbus Ob/Gyn East 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roses 526 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.