Durable goods agents and brokers, wholesale trade · New Jersey

Merola Tile Distributors of America LLC

Manalapan, NJ · ~110 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merola Tile Distributors of America LLC runs at 296% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Durable goods agents and brokers, wholesale trade workplace, earning a grade F.

Merola Tile Distributors of America LLC: 6.5 TCR = 296% of Durable goods agents and brokers, wholesale trade BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merola Tile Distributors of America LLC safety composite

Merola Tile Distributors of America LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.1

2023→2024

Merola Tile Distributors of America LLC injury rate improved

Merola Tile Distributors of America LLC's TCR fell 11.1 from 12.1 in 2023 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=12.1 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 425120 · Manalapan, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.5 · 296% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO 2904-ASM-NV
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2904-ASM-NV (0.1 TCR gap)

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Merola Tile Distributors of America LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merola Tile Distributors of America LLC averages 6.5 TCR (296% of the Durable goods agents and brokers, wholesale trade BLS benchmark).

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

Merola Tile Distributors of America LLC TCR series: 2023=12.1 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Merola Tile Distributors of America LLC falls in its industry

243 Durable goods agents and broke establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Durable goods agents and broke employers in New Jersey.

Merola Tile Distributors of America LLC (110 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 162 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 01,0002,0003,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Merola Tile Distributors of America LLC
Merola Tile Distributors of America LLC (110 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 162 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Merola Tile Distributors of America LLC has fewer employees than the Durable goods agents and brokers, wholes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 12.1 8.5 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

425120 · NJ · Manalapan

243 Durable goods agents and brokers, wholesale trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 18 employers in Manalapan, NJ · 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 2904-ASM-NV 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metro Auto Auction Dallas 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harrisburg 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2904-SAS-NE 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tilcon New York - Construction 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE FCC NY Division 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA NJ Totowa 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aunt Kitty's Foods Inc. 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Manalapan 095 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1184 - Manalapan 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR 332445-ENGLISHTOWN PO 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR KRP Transport LLC 67 FTE
NAT-TCR El Rio Grande Latin Market #6 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR A&M Roofing Services, LLC 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kempsville Building Materials 482 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lenny Szarek 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aquatic Sales Solutions 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Technology Components, Inc 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Samaritan House 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Communications Construction, Inc. 110 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.