Heat exchangers manufacturing · Virginia

Mersen Salem

Salem, VA · ~77 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mersen Salem runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Heat exchangers manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Mersen Salem: 0.3 TCR = 11% of Heat exchangers manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mersen Salem safety composite

Mersen Salem scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Mersen Salem held a steady TCR band

Mersen Salem's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332410 · Salem, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 11% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO Thermal Engineering …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thermal Engineering International Joplin (0.1 TCR gap)

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Mersen Salem in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mersen Salem averages 0.3 TCR (11% of the Heat exchangers manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Mersen Salem TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Mersen Salem falls in its industry

171 Heat exchangers manufacturing establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Heat exchangers manufacturing employers in Virginia.

Mersen Salem (77 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Mersen Salem
Mersen Salem (77 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Mersen Salem has more employees than the Heat exchangers manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332410 · VA · Salem

171 Heat exchangers manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 134 employers in Salem, VA · 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 Thermal Engineering International Joplin 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR The G.C. Broach Company 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chart 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Hydronics Company 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Plant 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE AECOM: CS Federal 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Piedmont Concrete Contractors 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lynchburg Mill 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carter Machinery Company, Inc. 2,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lewis Gale Medical Center 1,159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Virginia, LLC 770 FTE
CITY-NEAR LewisGale Medical Center 690 FTE
NAT-TCR Nestle Nutrition USA, Gateway 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunoco Ellis Administrative 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vermont Yankee 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mundy Maintenance and Services LLC Job #31041 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sierra Vista Healthcare Center 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lexus Danvers 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chippewa County Road Commission 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marriott Residence Inn Beverly Hills 77 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.