Other Building Material Dealers · Wisconsin

Wisconsin Bldg (Trantow) - Merrill

Merrill, WI · ~17 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wisconsin Bldg (Trantow) - Merrill runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Other Building Material Dealers workplace, earning a grade B.

Wisconsin Bldg (Trantow) - Merrill: 2.0 TCR = 59% of Other Building Material Dealers BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wisconsin Bldg (Trantow) - Merrill safety composite

Wisconsin Bldg (Trantow) - Merrill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Wisconsin Bldg (Trantow) - Merrill: 5.2 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 3.44× in 2021

Wisconsin Bldg (Trantow) - Merrill's TCR rose 1.8 from 5.2 in 2016 to 6.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 3.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Merrill, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 59% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #4/33
  • PHOTO MID-SOUTH LUMBER CO.…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MID-SOUTH LUMBER CO. OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wisconsin Bldg (Trantow) - Merrill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wisconsin Bldg (Trantow) - Merrill averages 2.0 TCR (59% of the Other Building Material Dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Wisconsin Bldg (Trantow) - Merrill TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=6.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Wisconsin Bldg (Trantow) - Merrill falls in its industry

1,643 Other Building Material Dealer establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 33 Other Building Material Dealer employers in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Bldg (Trantow) - Merrill (17 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Wisconsin Bldg (Trantow) - Merrill
Wisconsin Bldg (Trantow) - Merrill (17 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Wisconsin Bldg (Trantow) - Merrill has fewer employees than the Other Building Material Dealers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2021 6.9 6.9 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 5.2 5.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · WI · Merrill

1,643 Other Building Material Dealers 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR MID-SOUTH LUMBER CO. OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA, INC. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CARTER LUMBER 242 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR KIGHT HOME CENTER 492 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lampert Lumber HQ - St Paul MN 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE PortSide Builders - Neenah 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mission Support Services, LLC 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jens Construction Corp. 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 17 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 St. Mary's Hospital EVS 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 491-DC001 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BMW of El Cajon 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Quanta Telecommunication Solutions, LLC 2.0 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.