Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fabrics) weaving · South Carolina

Mermet

Cowpens, SC · ~170 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mermet runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fabrics) weaving workplace, earning a grade D.

Mermet: 4.1 TCR = 124% of Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fabrics) weaving BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mermet safety composite

Mermet scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Mermet: 2.4 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.37× in 2023

Mermet's TCR rose 0.6 from 2.4 in 2017 to 3.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313210 · Cowpens, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 124% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #25/29
  • PHOTO Voith Fabrics and Ro…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~170 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Voith Fabrics and Rolls Appleton (0.1 TCR gap)

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Mermet in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mermet averages 4.1 TCR (124% of the Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fabrics) weaving BLS benchmark).

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

Mermet TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=3 · 2022=4 · 2023=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Mermet falls in its industry

141 Broadwoven fabrics (except rug establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 29 Broadwoven fabrics (except rug employers in South Carolina.

Mermet (170 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 136 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Mermet
Mermet (170 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 136 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Mermet has more employees than the Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2023 3.0 1.5 3 1 0
2022 4.0 1.7 7 0 0
2021 3.0 0.7 4 0 0
2020 3.1 1.6 3 1 0
2019 6.9 3.7 9 4 0
2018 6.2 3.9 11 0 0
2017 2.4 0.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313210 · SC · Cowpens

141 Broadwoven fabrics (except rugs, tire fabrics) weaving employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 18 employers in Cowpens, SC · 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 Voith Fabrics and Rolls Appleton 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Global Safety Textiles 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint-Gobain Russellville, AL 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mount Vernon Mills Rockingham 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE ARC Energy Services, Inc. 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milliken & Co/Cedar Hill 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE KRA Operation LLC 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meritor 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC11 DC11 COWPENS SC 1,195 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4186-DC11 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cowpens - 600 Webber Road 447 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bericap SC, LLC 110 FTE
NAT-TCR Green Bay, WI Facility 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Vishay Dale Electronics UltraSource 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Stellar Truck & Trailer 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Louisville Packaging 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Briggs Electric, Inc.-NV 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlantic Private Care Services 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE LP Marietta II, LLC (Tower Road) 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spokeo Inc. 170 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.