Transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) · Oregon

Merlo

Beaverton, OR · ~551 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merlo runs at 149% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) workplace, earning a grade D.

Merlo: 6.7 TCR = 149% of Transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merlo safety composite

Merlo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.33 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

Merlo: 5.7 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2020

Merlo's TCR rose 2.0 from 5.7 in 2019 to 7.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485111 · Beaverton, OR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 149% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #12/30
  • PHOTO St. Cloud Metropolit…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 68 inj
  • SIZE ~551 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St. Cloud Metropolitan Transit Commission (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merlo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merlo averages 6.7 TCR (149% of the Transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) BLS benchmark).

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

Merlo TCR series: 2019=5.7 · 2020=7.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Merlo falls in its industry

421 Transit systems, mixed mode (e establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 30 Transit systems, mixed mode (e employers in Oregon.

Merlo (551 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Merlo
Merlo (551 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Merlo has more employees than the Transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2020 7.7 5.3 39 0 0
2019 5.7 4.3 29 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485111 · OR · Beaverton

421 Transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 240 employers in Beaverton, OR · 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 St. Cloud Metropolitan Transit Commission 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frist Transit West 55506 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6091-512 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1361 BUS OVERHAUL PROGRAM 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wilson Construction Co. 552 FTE
STATE-SIZE HERMISTON OR 550 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacific Foods 549 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2252-00000619 549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nike World Headquarters 14,796 FTE
CITY-NEAR 004-Nike Air Manufacturing Oregon 1,585 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tailwind (IHM - Beaverton) 1,170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Analog Devices 907 FTE
NAT-TCR P.D. Peterka & Associates, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Grandview Hospital 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Colorado Springs CO Millwork 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Futurex Industries - THS Plant 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trend Offset Printing 551 FTE
NAT-SIZE GOJO Plaza 551 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shiseido Americas Distribution Center 551 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston Terminal 551 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: 2020, 2019. 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.