Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing · Wisconsin

Merrick's Inc

Wonewoc, WI · ~18 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merrick's Inc runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Merrick's Inc: 1.4 TCR = 37% of Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrick's Inc safety composite

Merrick's Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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

−4.3

2016→2018

Merrick's Inc injury rate improved

Merrick's Inc's TCR fell 4.3 from 4.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.3 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Wonewoc, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 37% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/16
  • PHOTO NPPC Allentown
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NPPC Allentown (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merrick's Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merrick's Inc averages 1.4 TCR (37% of the Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Merrick's Inc TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.9

Where Merrick's Inc falls in its industry

302 Animal feeds, prepared, dog an establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 16 Animal feeds, prepared, dog an employers in Wisconsin.

Merrick's Inc (18 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Merrick's Inc
Merrick's Inc (18 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Merrick's Inc has fewer employees than the Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, man median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · WI · Wonewoc

302 Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR NPPC Allentown 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond Pet Foods - Gaston 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PCB - Perfection Pet Foods Kibble 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond Pet Foods 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gardner Cranberry 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE King's Valley Ag 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Richmond Agronom 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Altius Building Company 18 FTE
NAT-TCR Ashtabula 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR New Jersey American Water - Short Hills 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Structure Tone, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Health 1.4 TCR

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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.