Water softening equipment manufacturing · Ohio

A. O. Smith Groveport

Groveport, OH · ~157 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A. O. Smith Groveport runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Water softening equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

A. O. Smith Groveport: 2.9 TCR = 87% of Water softening equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A. O. Smith Groveport safety composite

A. O. Smith Groveport scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2022→2024

A. O. Smith Groveport injury rate improved

A. O. Smith Groveport's TCR fell 0.7 from 3.6 in 2022 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.6 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333318 · Groveport, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #15/24
  • PHOTO MATERIALS TRANSPORTA…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~157 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MATERIALS TRANSPORTATION COMPANY (0.0 TCR gap)

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A. O. Smith Groveport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A. O. Smith Groveport averages 2.9 TCR (87% of the Water softening equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

A. O. Smith Groveport TCR series: 2022=3.6 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where A. O. Smith Groveport falls in its industry

361 Water softening equipment manu establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 24 Water softening equipment manu employers in Ohio.

A. O. Smith Groveport (157 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate A. O. Smith Groveport
A. O. Smith Groveport (157 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7

A. O. Smith Groveport has more employees than the Water softening equipment manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 2.9 1.7 5 0 0
2023 2.1 2.1 4 0 0
2022 3.6 3.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333318 · OH · Groveport

361 Water softening equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 135 employers in Groveport, 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 MATERIALS TRANSPORTATION COMPANY 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemical Methods Associates, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FL - Invision 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nicholson Manufacturing, Inc 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE C.J. Mahan Construction Company, LLC 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE everdry waterproofing 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE B&G Foods North America Inc., Crisco Plant 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE K055-M001 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ohio Fulfillment Center (OFC) 1,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 9475 992 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbus 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR RICART AUTOMOTIVE PERSONNEL INC 737 FTE
NAT-TCR AHF, LLC dba AHF Products 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR GreenTek Solutions LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Culligan-Marlette 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 533009-Eagle Mountain | TX | TEX-745 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arbor CP, LLC 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thayer County Health Services 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pramira, Inc. 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE W. S. Townsend Co./DBA MKD Kitchen and Bath 157 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. 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.