Commercial building construction · Missouri

Merrill Steel

Springfield, MO · ~133 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merrill Steel runs at 496% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commercial building construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Merrill Steel: 14.4 TCR = 496% of Commercial building construction BLS 2.9 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrill Steel safety composite

Merrill Steel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Merrill Steel: 13.8 → 19.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2024

Merrill Steel's TCR rose 5.7 from 13.8 in 2016 to 19.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Springfield, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.4 · 496% of ind

  • DART 14.0 DART
  • RANK #121/122
  • PHOTO Las Cruces 1
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 152 inj
  • SIZE ~133 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Las Cruces 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merrill Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merrill Steel averages 14.4 TCR (496% of the Commercial building construction BLS benchmark).

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

Merrill Steel TCR series: 2016=13.8 · 2017=13.4 · 2018=9.7 · 2019=15.3 · 2020=12.9 · 2022=15.2 · 2023=15 · 2024=19.5 · BLS 2.9

Where Merrill Steel falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #121 safest of 122 Commercial building constructi employers in Missouri.

Merrill Steel (133 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Merrill Steel
Merrill Steel (133 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Merrill Steel has more employees than the Commercial building construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2024 19.5 14.0 32 0 0
2023 15.0 12.4 23 0 0
2022 15.2 2.9 17 4 0
2020 12.9 6.1 15 4 0
2019 15.3 9.8 20 5 0
2018 9.7 7.8 13 2 0
2017 13.4 10.5 15 3 0
2016 13.8 6.2 17 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · MO · Springfield

4,692 Commercial building construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 633 employers in Springfield, MO · 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 Cruces 1 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DCO CUSTOM BUILDERS LLC 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Branch Ironworks 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Construction Associates of Spokane Inc 14.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heitkamp Masonry, Inc. 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cosmos Corporation 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Royal Gate Dodge, Inc. 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-2767 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL SPRINGFIELD 4,885 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prime, Inc. HQ 3,091 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corp 3,052 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bass Pro Corporate 1,888 FTE
NAT-TCR Lakeland Correctional Facility 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 2130 - Topsham 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cerritos Vista Healthcare Center 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Smith Shade & Linoleum Co., Inc. 14.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plumb House, Inc. 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rnc Nunez Labor Contracting 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holman Logistics - GE Perryville 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Contours Corbin RTF 133 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, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.