Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard · Connecticut

Merrill Industries, LLC

Ellington, CT · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merrill Industries, LLC runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade C.

Merrill Industries, LLC: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrill Industries, LLC safety composite

Merrill Industries, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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)
D 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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 Industries, LLC held a steady TCR band

Merrill Industries, LLC's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.8 in 2017 to 3.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.8 · 2021=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Ellington, CT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #3/12
  • PHOTO 4047 Devens Box Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4047 Devens Box Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merrill Industries, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merrill Industries, LLC averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Merrill Industries, LLC TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2021=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Merrill Industries, LLC falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 12 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Connecticut.

Merrill Industries, LLC (37 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0100200300 0123456 Average employees Total Case Rate Merrill Industries, LLC
Merrill Industries, LLC (37 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Merrill Industries, LLC has fewer employees than the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2017 2.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · CT · Ellington

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 23 employers in Ellington, CT · 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 4047 Devens Box Plant 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPL- New England Sheets MA 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAPP Reading Mill 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Affinity Grow 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - New Britain 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - East Windsor 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Loureiro Contractors, Inc. 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Y Foods, Inc. Ellington 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Town of Ellington 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Earthlight Main 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Country Pure Foods - Ellington, Connecticut 101 FTE
NAT-TCR Leppinks Spring Lake 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill of the Heartland - CRC 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Indiana University Health Bedford, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Palatka Service Center 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Factory 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accurate Corporate Services 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springfield - BlackHawk Industrial 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Workplace Resource- AU Showroom 37 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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