Retail · Ohio

189 - Defiance

Defiance, OH · ~175 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

189 - Defiance runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Retail workplace, earning a grade B.

189 - Defiance: 1.9 TCR = 56% of Retail BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

189 - Defiance safety composite

189 - Defiance scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

189 - Defiance: 0.7 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2024

189 - Defiance's TCR rose 3.2 from 0.7 in 2021 to 3.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 455211 · Defiance, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 56% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #18/86
  • PHOTO 032 - Canton
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~175 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 032 - Canton (0.0 TCR gap)

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189 - Defiance in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 189 - Defiance averages 1.9 TCR (56% of the Retail BLS benchmark).

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

189 - Defiance TCR series: 2021=0.7 · 2022=0.7 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.4

Where 189 - Defiance falls in its industry

1,491 Retail establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 86 Retail employers in Ohio.

189 - Defiance (175 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 260 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 100200300400500600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate 189 - Defiance
189 - Defiance (175 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 260 employees and a TCR of 4.8

189 - Defiance has fewer employees than the Retail median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 3.9 2.3 5 0 0
2023 2.3 0.0 3 0 0
2022 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2021 0.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

455211 · OH · Defiance

1,491 Retail employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 65 employers in Defiance, OH · 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 032 - Canton 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 068 - Westland 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 242 - Lenox Twp MI 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 272 - Bowling Green 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Michels Pipeline- OH 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE PJOTTAWA: Ottawa OH - 6711 Rd 13 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakeside Interior Contractors, Inc. 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kinetics Noise Control 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campbell Soup Supply Company, LLC 1,425 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors LLC. 734 FTE
CITY-NEAR Defiance 8 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Defiance Regional Medical Center 363 FTE
NAT-TCR 242 - Lenox Twp MI 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 272 - Bowling Green 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 068 - Westland 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 032 - Canton 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Omni Viking Lakes Hotel 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aclara Technologies, LLC 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tristate Truck Center, LLC 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE PAM Specialty Victoria South 175 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.