Guards, wire, made from purchased wire · Wisconsin

Merrill Manufacturing Corporation

Merrill, WI · ~34 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merrill Manufacturing Corporation runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Guards, wire, made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade C.

Merrill Manufacturing Corporation: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Guards, wire, made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrill Manufacturing Corporation safety composite

Merrill Manufacturing Corporation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Merrill Manufacturing Corporation: 0.0 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.86× in 2022

Merrill Manufacturing Corporation's TCR rose 9.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 9.0 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · Merrill, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK #5/13
  • PHOTO Las Vegas
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Las Vegas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merrill Manufacturing Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merrill Manufacturing Corporation averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Guards, wire, made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

Merrill Manufacturing Corporation TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=6 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=9 · BLS 3.3

Where Merrill Manufacturing Corporation falls in its industry

270 Guards, wire, made from purcha establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 13 Guards, wire, made from purcha employers in Wisconsin.

Merrill Manufacturing Corporation (34 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Merrill Manufacturing Corporation
Merrill Manufacturing Corporation (34 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Merrill Manufacturing Corporation has fewer employees than the Guards, wire, made from purchased wire median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2022 9.0 9.0 3 0 0
2021 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2020 6.0 3.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · WI · Merrill

270 Guards, wire, made from purchased wire 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 Las Vegas 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Fence & Supply Co., Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashley Sling Charlotte 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chief Manufacturing, Inc. 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Drumlin Dairy, LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Merrillan East Coating 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayfront Steam Plant 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayfront Steam Plant-5D 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merrill Area Public Schools 440 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1366 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1366 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill 200 FTE
NAT-TCR Westbrook Public Schools 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tops #215 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tops #603 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tops #587 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rocky Mountain Care Center 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE ASEC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Brighton 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ryerson - Mobile 34 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.