Cornices, wood, manufacturing · Kentucky

Merrick Hardwoods, Inc

Burnside, KY · ~140 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merrick Hardwoods, Inc runs at 262% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cornices, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Merrick Hardwoods, Inc: 8.6 TCR = 262% of Cornices, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrick Hardwoods, Inc safety composite

Merrick Hardwoods, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.7

2022→2024

Merrick Hardwoods, Inc injury rate improved

Merrick Hardwoods, Inc's TCR fell 2.7 from 9.8 in 2022 to 7.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=9.8 · 2023=9.1 · 2024=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321918 · Burnside, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 262% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #14/16
  • PHOTO OHC Stockton
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~140 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OHC Stockton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merrick Hardwoods, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merrick Hardwoods, Inc averages 8.6 TCR (262% of the Cornices, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Merrick Hardwoods, Inc TCR series: 2022=9.8 · 2023=9.1 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Merrick Hardwoods, Inc falls in its industry

317 Cornices, wood, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 16 Cornices, wood, manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

Merrick Hardwoods, Inc (140 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 050100150200250300 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Merrick Hardwoods, Inc
Merrick Hardwoods, Inc (140 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Merrick Hardwoods, Inc has more employees than the Cornices, wood, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 7.1 4.3 9 1 0
2023 9.1 6.3 13 0 0
2022 9.8 2.8 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321918 · KY · Burnside

317 Cornices, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 7 employers in Burnside, KY · 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 OHC Stockton 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ferche - MN 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Signature Company 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waynesboro - Lumber and Surfaces 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clay Ingels Company, LLC. 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brown Sprinkler Corporation (Company Totals) 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE LONDON KY PLANT 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&J Pepsi- Winchester 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kingsford Mfg 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burnside 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Generating Station 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Rail Service, LLC 31 FTE
NAT-TCR Alpha Insulation Denver 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Davis County Hospital 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CHAT of Pennsylvania 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bollig and Sons Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Colorado Box Beef - Atlanta 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE BorgWarner Livonia 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE A Lamp Concrete Contractors 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gundersen Tomah Clinic 140 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, 2022. 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.