Wood window frames and sash manufacturing · Wisconsin

SPI - WN Merrill - Water St

Merrill, WI · ~159 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SPI - WN Merrill - Water St runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wood window frames and sash manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

SPI - WN Merrill - Water St: 6.1 TCR = 186% of Wood window frames and sash manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SPI - WN Merrill - Water St safety composite

SPI - WN Merrill - Water St scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

SPI - WN Merrill - Water St: 3.8 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.34× in 2024

SPI - WN Merrill - Water St's TCR rose 1.1 from 3.8 in 2021 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321911 · Merrill, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 186% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #18/33
  • PHOTO Central Woodwork of …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~159 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Woodwork of Nashville, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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SPI - WN Merrill - Water St in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SPI - WN Merrill - Water St averages 6.1 TCR (186% of the Wood window frames and sash manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SPI - WN Merrill - Water St TCR series: 2021=3.8 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where SPI - WN Merrill - Water St falls in its industry

452 Wood window frames and sash ma establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 33 Wood window frames and sash ma employers in Wisconsin.

SPI - WN Merrill - Water St (159 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate SPI - WN Merrill - Water St
SPI - WN Merrill - Water St (159 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 5.0

SPI - WN Merrill - Water St has more employees than the Wood window frames and sash manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 4.9 2.1 6 1 0
2023 7.5 1.9 9 3 0
2022 8.4 2.6 12 4 0
2021 3.8 2.2 3 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321911 · WI · Merrill

452 Wood window frames and sash manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 49 employers in Merrill, WI · 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 Central Woodwork of Nashville, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Endura Products Inc-Upper Plant 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swaner Hardwood Co., Inc 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Endeavor Hardwoods, Inc. 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Michels Power-Neenah, WI 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Andes Candies LLC 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper - Manitowoc 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pratt (Beloit Corrugating) LLC 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merrill Area Public Schools 440 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1366 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1366 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill 200 FTE
NAT-TCR Lake Erie Metropark 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR AJM Packaging - Taylor 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Holston Health and Rehabilitation 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Arizona Center for Nature Conservation 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Santa Ana Creek Development dba Mark Company 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bel-Art Products, Pocomoke, MD 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Borealis 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Teva Pharmaceuticals USA - North Wales 159 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.