Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) · Michigan

Merl's Towing Service

Wyoming, MI · ~24 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merl's Towing Service runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) workplace, earning a grade B.

Merl's Towing Service: 3.5 TCR = 78% of Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merl's Towing Service safety composite

Merl's Towing Service scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−7.0

2016→2024

Merl's Towing Service injury rate improved

Merl's Towing Service's TCR fell 7.0 from 7.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=7.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488410 · Wyoming, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 78% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/8
  • PHOTO Voigt Inc DBA Smitty…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Voigt Inc DBA Smitty's Towing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merl's Towing Service in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merl's Towing Service averages 3.5 TCR (78% of the Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) BLS benchmark).

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

Merl's Towing Service TCR series: 2016=7 · 2017=0 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=7.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Merl's Towing Service falls in its industry

157 Emergency road services (i.e., establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 8 Emergency road services (i.e., employers in Michigan.

Merl's Towing Service (24 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Merl's Towing Service
Merl's Towing Service (24 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Merl's Towing Service has fewer employees than the Emergency road services (i.e., tow servi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 7.2 0.0 2 0 0
2020 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 7.0 7.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488410 · MI · Wyoming

157 Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 199 employers in Wyoming, MI · 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 Voigt Inc DBA Smitty's Towing 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rich's Towing & Service Inc 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Towing & Transport Frisco 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Country City Towing Inc. 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Medina Dairy, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sturgis 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE CE Innovation Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Filtration and Meter Shop 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Metro Health Main Hospital 1,976 FTE
CITY-NEAR MI-WYOMI08-Home Office - Wyoming MI 1,542 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIGRN - GRAND RAPIDS HUB 1,494 FTE
CITY-NEAR GRAND RAPIDS HUB (MIGRN) 1,345 FTE
NAT-TCR PM Transport of Florida, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bway Chicago 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hajoca 563 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wichita Ks - 240 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0k56 - Mesquite Tx 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn Portsmouth 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Four Seasons Hauling 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 02012-02-02-French Camp 24 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.