Full service restaurants · Massachusetts

Merrill's on the Waterfront

New Bedford, MA · ~45 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merrill's on the Waterfront runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Full service restaurants workplace, earning a grade C.

Merrill's on the Waterfront: 2.6 TCR = 87% of Full service restaurants BLS 3.0 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrill's on the Waterfront safety composite

Merrill's on the Waterfront scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.5

2019→2024

Merrill's on the Waterfront injury rate improved

Merrill's on the Waterfront's TCR fell 7.5 from 7.5 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.5 · 2020=8.2 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722511 · New Bedford, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 87% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/19
  • PHOTO IHOP 1522
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IHOP 1522 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merrill's on the Waterfront in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merrill's on the Waterfront averages 2.6 TCR (87% of the Full service restaurants BLS benchmark).

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

Merrill's on the Waterfront TCR series: 2019=7.5 · 2020=8.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.0

Where Merrill's on the Waterfront falls in its industry

1,091 Full service restaurants establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 19 Full service restaurants employers in Massachusetts.

Merrill's on the Waterfront (45 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Merrill's on the Waterfront
Merrill's on the Waterfront (45 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Merrill's on the Waterfront has fewer employees than the Full service restaurants median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 8.2 8.2 1 0 0
2019 7.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722511 · MA · New Bedford

1,091 Full service restaurants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 109 employers in New Bedford, MA · 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 IHOP 1522 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR IHOP 3212 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terza Ristorante & Lavetta Bar 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR RUN I-DRIVE LLC. 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Resinate, Inc. - Douglas 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canal Generating LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTHAMPTON-MA32 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE WILMINGTON-MA57 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital 2,204 FTE
CITY-NEAR High Point & Affiliated Organizations 1,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR JAMCO 690 FTE
CITY-NEAR LifeStream 644 FTE
NAT-TCR Hyosung USA Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodhouse Ford Chrysler 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR St Paul 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fiber Processing plant 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Powerbrace Corporation 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Kugel Corporation 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE HCAIV01 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Innovex Downhole Solutions Midland OH 45 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.