Nondurable goods agents and brokers, wholesale trade · North Carolina

Merz North America, Inc. Raleigh Ax

Raleigh, NC · ~585 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merz North America, Inc. Raleigh Ax runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nondurable goods agents and brokers, wholesale trade workplace, earning a grade A.

Merz North America, Inc. Raleigh Ax: 0.6 TCR = 26% of Nondurable goods agents and brokers, wholesale trade BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merz North America, Inc. Raleigh Ax safety composite

Merz North America, Inc. Raleigh Ax scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Merz North America, Inc. Raleigh Ax: 0.2 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Merz North America, Inc. Raleigh Ax's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.2 in 2022 to 1.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 425120 · Raleigh, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO 2904-R2-TX
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~585 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2904-R2-TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merz North America, Inc. Raleigh Ax in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merz North America, Inc. Raleigh Ax averages 0.6 TCR (26% of the Nondurable goods agents and brokers, wholesale trade BLS benchmark).

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

Merz North America, Inc. Raleigh Ax TCR series: 2022=0.2 · 2023=0.4 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Merz North America, Inc. Raleigh Ax falls in its industry

243 Nondurable goods agents and br establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 8 Nondurable goods agents and br employers in North Carolina.

Merz North America, Inc. Raleigh Ax (585 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 162 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 01,0002,0003,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Merz North America, Inc. Raleigh Ax
Merz North America, Inc. Raleigh Ax (585 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 162 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Merz North America, Inc. Raleigh Ax has more employees than the Nondurable goods agents and brokers, who median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 1.1 0.0 7 0 0
2023 0.4 0.2 2 0 0
2022 0.2 0.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

425120 · NC · Raleigh

243 Nondurable goods agents and brokers, wholesale trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 973 employers in Raleigh, 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 2904-R2-TX 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2904-0010 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amgen USA (Sales - Flex workers) 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eatontown 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nutrien 586 FTE
STATE-SIZE ASCO Power Technologies 584 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Hickory - 0810 587 FTE
STATE-SIZE GBO-ODFL 587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Headway Workforce Solutions 13,936 FTE
CITY-NEAR NC State University 11,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Rex Healthcare 7,282 FTE
CITY-NEAR SECU 6,283 FTE
NAT-TCR Schultz Trucking Shop 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairfield Inn Meadowlands 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mahoney Associates, LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Technibus 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Electric Power Systems International 585 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - AFW5 585 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homewood 585 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountaineer Casino 585 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. 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.