Anodizing equipment manufacturing · North Carolina

Mertek Solutions, Inc.

Sanford, NC · ~39 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mertek Solutions, Inc. runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Anodizing equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Mertek Solutions, Inc.: 2.0 TCR = 62% of Anodizing equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mertek Solutions, Inc. safety composite

Mertek Solutions, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Mertek Solutions, Inc.: 2.1 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Mertek Solutions, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.6 from 2.1 in 2018 to 2.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333249 · Sanford, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 62% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/15
  • PHOTO Evolve Additive Solu…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Evolve Additive Solutions, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mertek Solutions, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mertek Solutions, Inc. averages 2.0 TCR (62% of the Anodizing equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Mertek Solutions, Inc. TCR series: 2018=2.1 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Mertek Solutions, Inc. falls in its industry

448 Anodizing equipment manufactur establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 15 Anodizing equipment manufactur employers in North Carolina.

Mertek Solutions, Inc. (39 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Mertek Solutions, Inc.
Mertek Solutions, Inc. (39 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Mertek Solutions, Inc. has fewer employees than the Anodizing equipment manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 2.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333249 · NC · Sanford

448 Anodizing equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 121 employers in Sanford, NC · 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 Evolve Additive Solutions, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Will Enterprises 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pope Scientific, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Regal Beloit America (Plastics) 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taylor's Nursery-Louisburg 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE B & S Farming, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jeffery C Lee Farms, INC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sullivan Farms Inc. 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coty US LLC 1,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pentair Sanford Hawkins Ave 937 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanford, NC 772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pentair Water Pool and Spa 768 FTE
NAT-TCR George Koch Sons - Caledonia 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Desert Mist Farms 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR WheelWorx PEKIN 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR C-20-0010 Lock & Dam 53 Demolition 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ocean Crest Seafoods, Inc 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town Hall 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shoreline RTC 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Good Tree Retirement 39 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, 2018. 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.