Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing · California

Norwesco - Merced

Merced, CA · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Norwesco - Merced runs at 449% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Norwesco - Merced: 14.8 TCR = 449% of Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norwesco - Merced safety composite

Norwesco - Merced scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Norwesco - Merced: 12.5 → 17.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 17.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2022

Norwesco - Merced's TCR rose 4.6 from 12.5 in 2021 to 17.1 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Merced, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.8 · 449% of ind

  • DART 12.8 DART
  • RANK #108/117
  • PHOTO TENNESSEE
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TENNESSEE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Norwesco - Merced in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Norwesco - Merced averages 14.8 TCR (449% of the Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Norwesco - Merced TCR series: 2021=12.5 · 2022=17.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Norwesco - Merced falls in its industry

2,838 Tanks, storage, plastics or fi establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #108 safest of 117 Tanks, storage, plastics or fi employers in California.

Norwesco - Merced (32 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Norwesco - Merced
Norwesco - Merced (32 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Norwesco - Merced has fewer employees than the Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2022 17.1 12.8 4 0 0
2021 12.5 9.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · CA · Merced

2,838 Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 187 employers in Merced, CA · 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 TENNESSEE 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR FormTight, Inc. 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DGP Inc. 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Polymer Industries - Mechanical Division 15.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schreiner Farms 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE FIVE POINTS T.I.C. 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE OFFICE 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brocchini Farms Inc. 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030211 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030211-211001 MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED 1,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dignity Health 1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-64030211-211001 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0017-0016-04091 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cambridge House of Maryvi 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gainesville Health & Rehab Center 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Conway 14.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ekcman Construction Company, Inc 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Equix Integrity, Inc. - Woodbury 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG088 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG160 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: 2022, 2021. 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.