DISTRIBUTING COS. · Florida

Merits Health Products, Inc.

Cape Coral, FL · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merits Health Products, Inc. runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical DISTRIBUTING COS. workplace, earning a grade B.

Merits Health Products, Inc.: 1.2 TCR = 54% of DISTRIBUTING COS. BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merits Health Products, Inc. safety composite

Merits Health Products, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

Merits Health Products, Inc.: 0.0 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Merits Health Products, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424990 · Cape Coral, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.2 · 54% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/20
  • PHOTO Waterloo Container Co.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Waterloo Container Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merits Health Products, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merits Health Products, Inc. averages 1.2 TCR (54% of the DISTRIBUTING COS. BLS benchmark).

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

Merits Health Products, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=2.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Merits Health Products, Inc. falls in its industry

301 DISTRIBUTING COS. establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 20 DISTRIBUTING COS. employers in Florida.

Merits Health Products, Inc. (32 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Merits Health Products, Inc.
Merits Health Products, Inc. (32 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Merits Health Products, Inc. has fewer employees than the DISTRIBUTING COS. median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2018 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424990 · FL · Cape Coral

301 DISTRIBUTING COS. employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 116 employers in Cape Coral, FL · 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 Waterloo Container Co. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crown Products / EBSCO 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Safeware Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMI-ACUFF 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hunt Bros Service 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tamiami Citrus, LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Osprey Energy Center 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midulla Generating Station 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gulf Coast Village 462 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 819 448 FTE
CITY-NEAR 819 416 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gulf Care Inc. 379 FTE
NAT-TCR MS - Indian Springs, NV - 5ISNV 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Phelps 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Legends - Sugar Land Skeeters 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MCCOMB 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #3122 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cypress Service Center EN10 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE I2 - Yonkers 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baltimore - Toyota 32 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.