Motor vehicle parts assembly · North Carolina

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC

Forest City, NC · ~390 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Motor vehicle parts assembly workplace, earning a grade A.

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC: 1.9 TCR = 35% of Motor vehicle parts assembly BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC safety composite

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC: 1.4 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2022

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC's TCR rose 0.9 from 1.4 in 2021 to 2.3 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Forest City, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.9 · 35% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #6/24
  • PHOTO 8462_19261
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~390 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 8462_19261 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC averages 1.9 TCR (35% of the Motor vehicle parts assembly BLS benchmark).

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

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC TCR series: 2021=1.4 · 2022=2.3 · BLS 5.4

Where Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC falls in its industry

772 Motor vehicle parts assembly establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 24 Motor vehicle parts assembly employers in North Carolina.

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC (390 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC
Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC (390 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC has more employees than the Motor vehicle parts assembly median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 2.3 1.4 5 0 0
2021 1.4 0.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · NC · Forest City

772 Motor vehicle parts assembly employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 38 employers in Forest City, NC · 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 8462_19261 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Livonia Transmission 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAMF 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highly Marelli USA Inc. 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 1663 390 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kontoor Brands Inc. Distribution Center Mocksville NC 390 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Pump & Tank Co., LLC dba SPATCO Energy Solutions 391 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wegmans Raleigh 108 389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest City Permanent 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1036 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1036 379 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5520 Forest City Permanent 299 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Discover - Lakepark 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Lehigh Valley Hsp-I 78 & Cedar 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Gresham-Barlow School Dist 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at St Vincent Med Ctr North-Fd 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0688 - Bakersfield Ca Whse 390 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0410 - Norwalk Ca Whse 390 FTE
NAT-SIZE Founders Brewing - 235 Grandville 390 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-DCWAS12 390 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, 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.