Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Mervis Industries - Metals

Danville, IL · ~18 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mervis Industries - Metals runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Mervis Industries - Metals: 5.0 TCR = 228% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mervis Industries - Metals safety composite

Mervis Industries - Metals scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Mervis Industries - Metals: 5.3 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.04× in 2024

Mervis Industries - Metals's TCR rose 4.9 from 5.3 in 2018 to 10.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Danville, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 228% of ind

  • DART 10.2 DART
  • RANK #42/62
  • PHOTO Moses B. Glick LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Moses B. Glick LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mervis Industries - Metals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mervis Industries - Metals averages 5.0 TCR (228% of the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Mervis Industries - Metals TCR series: 2018=5.3 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=10.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Mervis Industries - Metals falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 62 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Illinois.

Mervis Industries - Metals (18 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Mervis Industries - Metals
Mervis Industries - Metals (18 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Mervis Industries - Metals has fewer employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2024 10.2 10.2 2 0 0
2023 4.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 9.7 9.7 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.2 5.2 1 0 0
2018 5.3 5.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · IL · Danville

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 112 employers in Danville, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Moses B. Glick LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR GLS Group Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Langley Recycling Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMG Resources - Baltimore, MD 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lone Hollow, LLC. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lincoln 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avangrid Renewables - Top of Iowa II.Barton.Winnebego 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - GS Meter Shop and Engr 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIDWEST 785 FTE
CITY-NEAR KIK Custom Products 548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sacred Heart Medical Center 540 FTE
CITY-NEAR CC 300625 DANVILLE PLT 525 FTE
NAT-TCR Stoops Freightliner TC - Lafayette 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR McCarter Bus Garage 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ArborScape Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BR18 Santa Maria 5.0 TCR

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, 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.