Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Tennessee

Meritor

Morristown, TN · ~307 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meritor runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade C.

Meritor: 2.9 TCR = 86% of Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meritor safety composite

Meritor scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2016→2019

Meritor injury rate improved

Meritor's TCR fell 1.3 from 4.2 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.2 · 2017=1.6 · 2019=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Morristown, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 86% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO American Cold Forge
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~307 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Cold Forge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meritor in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meritor averages 2.9 TCR (86% of the Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Meritor TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=1.6 · 2019=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Meritor falls in its industry

241 Forgings made from purchased i establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 10 Forgings made from purchased i employers in Tennessee.

Meritor (307 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Meritor
Meritor (307 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Meritor has more employees than the Forgings made from purchased iron or ste median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2019 2.8 1.4 7 3 0
2017 1.6 1.6 5 0 0
2016 4.2 1.5 4 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · TN · Morristown

241 Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 123 employers in Morristown, TN · 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 American Cold Forge 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitcraft LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Auburn Hills Manufacturing 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charles E. Larson & Sons, Inc. 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE EMJ Corporation 307 FTE
STATE-SIZE CLEVELAND TN CDPA 307 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arvato _ Memphis 307 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 93 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAHLE Engine Components USA, INC. - Morristown 928 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howmet - Morristown M1 892 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howmet - Morristown 1 747 FTE
CITY-NEAR Team Technologies, Inc. Morristown, TN 729 FTE
NAT-TCR loris iga 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 281 - Evansville 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 150 Nw Lewisburg Av 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0030 0160 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Tigard Properties 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE Byrne Dairy Fluid milk Plant 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountain States Rosen Colorado 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electronics Plant 307 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: 2019, 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.