Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants · Indiana

Merit Steel Co

Kouts, IN · ~117 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Steel Co runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants workplace, earning a grade A.

Merit Steel Co: 1.2 TCR = 37% of Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Steel Co safety composite

Merit Steel Co scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

−0.8

2017→2024

Merit Steel Co injury rate improved

Merit Steel Co's TCR fell 0.8 from 0.8 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.8 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=1.6 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Kouts, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 37% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/19
  • PHOTO Central Wire Inc. Du…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Wire Inc. Dumas, AR (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merit Steel Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Steel Co averages 1.2 TCR (37% of the Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants BLS benchmark).

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

Merit Steel Co TCR series: 2017=0.8 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=1.6 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Merit Steel Co falls in its industry

163 Wire products, iron or steel, establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 19 Wire products, iron or steel, employers in Indiana.

Merit Steel Co (117 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Merit Steel Co
Merit Steel Co (117 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Merit Steel Co has more employees than the Wire products, iron or steel, made in wi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2022 2.2 1.5 3 0 0
2021 1.4 0.7 2 0 0
2019 1.6 0.8 2 0 0
2018 1.6 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · IN · Kouts

163 Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 6 employers in Kouts, IN · 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 Central Wire Inc. Dumas, AR 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alleima Palm Coast 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Insteel Wire Products FLW 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAO : LSM - Wauseon 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pulaski County Egg Farm 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Plumbing & Heating Inc. 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Overhead Door Company #661 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE J&J Pallet 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Porter County School Corp 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-58 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-058 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-15076000-15076 118 FTE
NAT-TCR Barnesville Hospital 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Swiss American CDMO 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ontario -Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. / FFE Transportation 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tarry Medical Products, Inc 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE AO Precision Manufacturing 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Soli Organic Inc. - Jefferson 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Laurels of Gahanna 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southwick Wild Animal Farm Inc 117 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.