Vehicle Power Train Components MFG · North Carolina

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC

Morganton, NC · ~70 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Vehicle Power Train Components MFG workplace, earning a grade C.

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC: 4.7 TCR = 87% of Vehicle Power Train Components MFG BLS 5.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC safety composite

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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: 4.0 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.35× in 2024

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC's TCR rose 5.8 from 4.0 in 2021 to 9.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336350 · Morganton, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.7 · 87% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #14/17
  • PHOTO NTA
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NTA (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 4.7 TCR (87% of the Vehicle Power Train Components MFG 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=4 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=9.8 · BLS 5.4

Where Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC falls in its industry

320 Vehicle Power Train Components establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 17 Vehicle Power Train Components employers in North Carolina.

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC (70 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC
Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC (70 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC has fewer employees than the Vehicle Power Train Components MFG median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 9.8 1.6 3 3 0
2023 2.6 1.3 1 1 0
2022 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2021 4.0 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336350 · NC · Morganton

320 Vehicle Power Train Components MFG employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 106 employers in Morganton, 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 NTA 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Exedy America Corporation 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flextronics Automotive Manufacturing Inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tsuda USA Corporation 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE SHARP FARM INC 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Farming Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACT Power Services, LLC 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEX-BLUE RIDGE HOSPITAL 3,263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Ridge HealthCare Hospitals, Inc. 1,461 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0090-BRHC Hospitals 1,460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Broughton Hospital 1,198 FTE
NAT-TCR Manhattan Management 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CHELC 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR YK 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cargill Buffalo Salt 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Zyxel Communications,Inc 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transport Service 60159 Lakeland 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE CAES Systems LLC 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrison and Burrowes 70 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.