Specialized Freight Trucking local · Nebraska

Mrk Inc

Lexington, NE · ~32 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Mrk Inc runs at 347% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Specialized Freight Trucking local workplace, earning a grade F.

Mrk Inc: 15.6 TCR = 347% of Specialized Freight Trucking local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mrk Inc safety composite

Mrk Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 4% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

3/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

Mrk Inc: 11.3 → 16.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 19.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2018

Mrk Inc's TCR rose 4.8 from 11.3 in 2016 to 16.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 19.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484220 · Lexington, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.6 · 347% of ind

  • DART 12.0 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO P&P Transportation
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: P&P Transportation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mrk Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mrk Inc averages 15.6 TCR (347% of the Specialized Freight Trucking local BLS benchmark).

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

Mrk Inc TCR series: 2016=11.3 · 2017=19.6 · 2018=16 · BLS 4.5

Where Mrk Inc falls in its industry

1,130 Specialized Freight Trucking l establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Specialized Freight Trucking l employers in Nebraska.

Mrk Inc (32 employees, TCR 15.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Mrk Inc
Mrk Inc (32 employees, TCR 15.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Mrk Inc has fewer employees than the Specialized Freight Trucking local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 16.0 12.0 4 0 0
2017 19.6 8.4 7 0 1
2016 11.3 8.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484220 · NE · Lexington

1,130 Specialized Freight Trucking local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 27 employers in Lexington, NE · 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 P&P Transportation 15.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR M&M Potato Inc. Idaho 16.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACLA LLC 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cooper-Booth Transportation Company 16.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bluebird Nursery Inc 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairieland Dairy 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Midwest Electric Cooperative Corporation 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHGNE - Kearney (NE053) 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lexington Plant 2,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 637 279 FTE
CITY-NEAR 637 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lexington Regional Health Center 260 FTE
NAT-TCR 0494 - Hayward, Ca 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 0627 - Conyers, Ga 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Monongalia County Emergency Medical Services, Inc. 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Two Men And A Truck 15.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Laurel Depot 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE KW-Key West 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wanda #2 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Covestro Silver Street 32 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.