Air system balancing and testing · Texas

Merit Services

Denton, TX · ~33 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Services runs at 561% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Air system balancing and testing workplace, earning a grade F.

Merit Services: 15.7 TCR = 561% of Air system balancing and testing BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Services safety composite

Merit Services scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

−5.1

2021→2024

Merit Services injury rate improved

Merit Services's TCR fell 5.1 from 17.7 in 2021 to 12.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 23.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=17.7 · 2022=9.5 · 2023=23.1 · 2024=12.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Denton, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.7 · 561% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #401/408
  • PHOTO ASI Hastings
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ASI Hastings (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merit Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Services averages 15.7 TCR (561% of the Air system balancing and testing BLS benchmark).

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

Merit Services TCR series: 2021=17.7 · 2022=9.5 · 2023=23.1 · 2024=12.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Merit Services falls in its industry

5,793 Air system balancing and testi establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #401 safest of 408 Air system balancing and testi employers in Texas.

Merit Services (33 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Merit Services
Merit Services (33 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Merit Services has fewer employees than the Air system balancing and testing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 12.6 7.5 5 0 0
2023 23.1 23.1 6 2 0
2022 9.5 9.5 3 0 0
2021 17.7 17.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · TX · Denton

5,793 Air system balancing and testing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 211 employers in Denton, 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 ASI Hastings 15.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR IMS Heating & Air, Inc. 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NorCal RotoCo Sacramento 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ideal Plumbing Heating Air Electrical Inc. 15.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE SW Seed Company New Deal 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treesap Farms LLC - Houston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tejas Feeders LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrims LIVE OPERATIONS 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Peterbilt Paccar 2,843 FTE
CITY-NEAR Peterbilt Motors Company 2,095 FTE
CITY-NEAR Texas Health Denton 1,091 FTE
CITY-NEAR 060 Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton 1,040 FTE
NAT-TCR Isd 2137 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 3339 - Oxon Hill 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill Paseo 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR NHC Dickson 15.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Piggly Wiggly #28/Ace #15356 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wooster Operations 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE FSR Contracting, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE R. Yoder Construction, Inc. 33 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. 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.