Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing · Michigan

Merit Technologies Worldwide

Canton, MI · ~120 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Technologies Worldwide runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Merit Technologies Worldwide: 4.5 TCR = 84% of Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Technologies Worldwide safety composite

Merit Technologies Worldwide scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Merit Technologies Worldwide: 3.9 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2017

Merit Technologies Worldwide's TCR rose 1.2 from 3.9 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336370 · Canton, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 84% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #74/165
  • PHOTO MPT Sterling Heights
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MPT Sterling Heights (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merit Technologies Worldwide in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Technologies Worldwide averages 4.5 TCR (84% of the Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Merit Technologies Worldwide TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=5.2 · BLS 5.4

Where Merit Technologies Worldwide falls in its industry

510 Job stampings, automotive, met establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #74 safest of 165 Job stampings, automotive, met employers in Michigan.

Merit Technologies Worldwide (120 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 05001,0001,500 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Merit Technologies Worldwide
Merit Technologies Worldwide (120 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Merit Technologies Worldwide has fewer employees than the Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2017 5.2 4.1 9 1 0
2016 3.9 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336370 · MI · Canton

510 Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 122 employers in Canton, MI · 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 MPT Sterling Heights 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leffel Works 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Challenge Manufacturing - Kansas City Manufacturing 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black River Stamping & Automation (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 4) 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elzinga & Volkers Inc. 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fennville MI 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ovid Plant 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ludington Plant 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6801 Headquarters 1,085 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sysco Detroit 397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DDT9 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3476 341 FTE
NAT-TCR Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center (KCPC) 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hermiston Center (Orhrm) 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Evergreen Home Healthcare-Fort Collins 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4557 San Jose, Ca 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Peapod S&S Riverhead, Ny 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highway 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE South 501 MNE8 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Arlington 120 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.