Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing · Texas

Merkel

Merkel, TX · ~28 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merkel runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Merkel: 4.0 TCR = 123% of Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merkel safety composite

Merkel scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

Merkel: 3.3 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Merkel's TCR rose 4.3 from 3.3 in 2016 to 7.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332311 · Merkel, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 123% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #31/43
  • PHOTO MFS/York/Stormor/Bro…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MFS/York/Stormor/Brownie (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merkel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merkel averages 4.0 TCR (123% of the Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Merkel TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=9 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Merkel falls in its industry

393 Buildings, prefabricated metal establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 43 Buildings, prefabricated metal employers in Texas.

Merkel (28 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Merkel
Merkel (28 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Merkel has fewer employees than the Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufact median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 7.5 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.3 3.2 2 0 0
2021 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 9.0 9.0 2 0 0
2018 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2016 3.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332311 · TX · Merkel

393 Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5 employers in Merkel, TX · 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 MFS/York/Stormor/Brownie 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schulte Building Systems, Inc-Cullman 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Legacy Building Solutions, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Regal Warehousing Services, Inc. DBA Jackson Ave Warehouse 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village farms of Fort Worth 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circle X Land & Cattle Co., Ltd. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Happy Hen Harwood 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ten Hi Gin INC 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Taylor Electric Cooperative 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Independent Wind Solutions LLC. 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buffalo Gap 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spring Market #725 19 FTE
NAT-TCR METRO 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bismarck 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Select Specialty Hospital - Pittsburgh/UPMC, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Eversource - Nashua 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE ALI Pharmaceutical Manufacturing LLC 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canton Racing Products 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whaley Foodservice-Greenville 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jensen Electric 28 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.