Truck trailer manufacturing · Colorado

Merritt Trailers Inc

Henderson, CO · ~189 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merritt Trailers Inc runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Truck trailer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Merritt Trailers Inc: 6.1 TCR = 186% of Truck trailer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merritt Trailers Inc safety composite

Merritt Trailers Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Merritt Trailers Inc: 2.4 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.41× in 2023

Merritt Trailers Inc's TCR rose 1.4 from 2.4 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Henderson, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 186% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Dragon Products CenTex
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~189 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dragon Products CenTex (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merritt Trailers Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merritt Trailers Inc averages 6.1 TCR (186% of the Truck trailer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Merritt Trailers Inc TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=9.5 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Merritt Trailers Inc falls in its industry

474 Truck trailer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Truck trailer manufacturing employers in Colorado.

Merritt Trailers Inc (189 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Merritt Trailers Inc
Merritt Trailers Inc (189 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Merritt Trailers Inc has more employees than the Truck trailer manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2023 3.8 2.5 6 0 0
2022 6.2 6.2 8 0 0
2021 7.1 7.1 8 1 0
2020 9.5 8.9 16 0 0
2019 7.8 7.2 14 0 0
2016 2.4 2.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · CO · Henderson

474 Truck trailer manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 90 employers in Henderson, CO · 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 Dragon Products CenTex 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LBT, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Middlebury Plant 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR BWISE Manufacturing, LLC 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Moltz Construction 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE ICI Holdings, LLC 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spec 7 Insulation 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dawn Food Products - Denver Manufacturing 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sturgeon Electric Company, Inc. C&I 1,636 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-DENV 1,222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sturgeon Electric Company, Inc. T&D 1,171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colorado C & I 827 FTE
NAT-TCR Dave's Supermarket 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Chicago Heights Public Works 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DA Visalia Courthouse 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wagstaff Engineering, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Liberty 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vernet US Corporation 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hanover R.S. Limited Partnership - Corporate 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mb Herzog Electric Inc 189 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.