Elementary and secondary schools · Wisconsin

Merrill Area Public Schools

Merrill, WI · ~440 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merrill Area Public Schools runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Merrill Area Public Schools: 2.8 TCR = 201% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrill Area Public Schools safety composite

Merrill Area Public Schools scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

Merrill Area Public Schools held a steady TCR band

Merrill Area Public Schools's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.9 in 2023 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.9 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Merrill, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 2.8 · 201% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #13/23
  • PHOTO Goodrich Elementary …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~440 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Goodrich Elementary School (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merrill Area Public Schools in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merrill Area Public Schools averages 2.8 TCR (201% of the Elementary and secondary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Merrill Area Public Schools TCR series: 2023=2.9 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 1.4

Where Merrill Area Public Schools falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 23 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Wisconsin.

Merrill Area Public Schools (440 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Merrill Area Public Schools
Merrill Area Public Schools (440 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Merrill Area Public Schools has more employees than the Elementary and secondary schools median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 2.7 0.7 8 0 0
2023 2.9 2.9 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · WI · Merrill

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 49 employers in Merrill, WI · 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 Goodrich Elementary School 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeview School #2167 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Washington Learning Center 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alexander Hugh Brown 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE School District of Sheboygan Falls 441 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wacker Neuson America Corporation 438 FTE
STATE-SIZE Distribution Center (W1) 442 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asplundh Tree Expert LLC - 062 438 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1366 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1366 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lincoln Wood Products 174 FTE
NAT-TCR New Sabina Industries 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Premium Waters, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR May Cabinets Incorporated 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ConeCraft, LLC. 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sysco Cleveland 440 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Region Medical, Inc. 440 FTE
NAT-SIZE UST Select, Inc 440 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hard Rock Hotel 440 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.