Plumbing fixtures, metal, manufacturing · Iowa

Merrill Manufacturing

Storm Lake, IA · ~54 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merrill Manufacturing runs at 212% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbing fixtures, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Merrill Manufacturing: 7.0 TCR = 212% of Plumbing fixtures, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrill Manufacturing safety composite

Merrill Manufacturing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−0.4

2016→2021

Merrill Manufacturing injury rate improved

Merrill Manufacturing's TCR fell 0.4 from 6.5 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.5 · 2020=8.4 · 2021=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Storm Lake, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 212% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/18
  • PHOTO Mayville North
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mayville North (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merrill Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merrill Manufacturing averages 7.0 TCR (212% of the Plumbing fixtures, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Merrill Manufacturing TCR series: 2016=6.5 · 2020=8.4 · 2021=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Merrill Manufacturing falls in its industry

827 Plumbing fixtures, metal, manu establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 18 Plumbing fixtures, metal, manu employers in Iowa.

Merrill Manufacturing (54 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Merrill Manufacturing
Merrill Manufacturing (54 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Merrill Manufacturing has fewer employees than the Plumbing fixtures, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 6.0 0.0 3 0 0
2020 8.4 0.0 4 0 0
2016 6.5 2.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · IA · Storm Lake

827 Plumbing fixtures, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 31 employers in Storm Lake, IA · 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 Mayville North 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SteelTech Partners, LLC 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Block and Company 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armaly LLC 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods Inc. - Graettinger 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Dodge Service Center 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Creek Plant 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bettendorf Service Center 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Storm Lake Plant 2,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR Storm Lake Turkey Plant 649 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buena Vista Regional Medical Center 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1526 273 FTE
NAT-TCR Amerhart Ltd. - Wind Mill 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Alta Equipment Company Traverse City 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Berry Material Handling- Topeka 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastern Division Roanoke 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Triton Marine Construction Corp. HAWAII 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nanochem Technologies LLC 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wild By Nature Co., Inc. 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7871-Enphg-Otterbein University 54 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, 2020, 2016. 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.