Employer · California

Merit Trucking Company Inc

Ontario, CA · ~34 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merit Trucking Company Inc runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Merit Trucking Company Inc: 2.2 TCR = 50% of industry BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merit Trucking Company Inc safety composite

Merit Trucking Company Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Merit Trucking Company Inc held a steady TCR band

Merit Trucking Company Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=6.7 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Ontario, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.2 · 50% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #86/218
  • PHOTO Dot Transportation, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dot Transportation, Inc. Burley, Idaho (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merit Trucking Company Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merit Trucking Company Inc averages 2.2 TCR (50% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Merit Trucking Company Inc TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=6.7 · 2022=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Merit Trucking Company Inc falls in its industry

3,252 industry establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #86 safest of 218 industry employers in California.

Merit Trucking Company Inc (34 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Merit Trucking Company Inc
Merit Trucking Company Inc (34 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Merit Trucking Company Inc has fewer employees than the industry 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.7 2.2 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · CA · Ontario

3,252 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 599 employers in Ontario, CA · 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 Dot Transportation, Inc. Burley, Idaho 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 7833 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ODD ENTERPRISES 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6885 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ardent Mills Yuba City 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Filice Farms, L.P. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alexander Ranch, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE MFarms 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prime Healthcare Services Inc. Location: St. Mary's, Passaic LLC 46-3499370 (HP29) 10,997 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAONA - ONTARIO HUB 4,372 FTE
CITY-NEAR ONTARIO HUB (CAONA) 3,354 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atlantic Solutions Group Inc, Inc. DBA Empire Workforce Solutions 3,240 FTE
NAT-TCR 4795-AA-PVD-PROVIDENCE-PVD-TRML 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cincinnati South 38310 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR East Orlando 46040 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4765-SRQPW9668 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Orem Ut Depot 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Syracuse Ny Depot 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisville Ky Depot 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE IMO's 510 - N Kingshighway 34 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: 2022, 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.