Hampers, laundry, plastics, manufacturing · West Virginia

Merrick Engineering

Clarksburg, WV · ~86 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merrick Engineering runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hampers, laundry, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Merrick Engineering: 1.9 TCR = 57% of Hampers, laundry, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrick Engineering safety composite

Merrick Engineering scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

Merrick Engineering: 1.3 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2021

Merrick Engineering's TCR rose 1.2 from 1.3 in 2020 to 2.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Clarksburg, WV AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #12/25
  • PHOTO Ajax Window Corp. db…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ajax Window Corp. dba Polar Seal Window Corp. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merrick Engineering in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merrick Engineering averages 1.9 TCR (57% of the Hampers, laundry, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Merrick Engineering TCR series: 2020=1.3 · 2021=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Merrick Engineering falls in its industry

2,838 Hampers, laundry, plastics, ma establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 25 Hampers, laundry, plastics, ma employers in West Virginia.

Merrick Engineering (86 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Merrick Engineering
Merrick Engineering (86 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Merrick Engineering has fewer employees than the Hampers, laundry, plastics, manufacturin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2021 2.5 1.3 2 0 0
2020 1.3 1.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · WV · Clarksburg

2,838 Hampers, laundry, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 59 employers in Clarksburg, WV · 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 Ajax Window Corp. dba Polar Seal Window Corp. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bel-Art Products, Pocomoke, MD 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ROYAL ALUMINUM CO. INC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Polymer Molding, Inc 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE BrandSafway Industries, LLC - Huntington - Branch 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Union Carbide Corp Tech Park 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weirton 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pratt & Whitney Engine Services, Inc. WV Hanger 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1544 382 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1544 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Applied Construction Solutions, INC 292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Energy Transportation, LLC 285 FTE
NAT-TCR Bridge City Mechanical, Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Commercial Warehousing T5 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Unique Thrift Store-125patr 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Olive Hill Save-A-Lot 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Myers 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.S. Paris Excavating 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anoka-Ramsey Community College - Cambrdige 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE CEI 86 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.