Industrial machinery and equipment (except electrical) merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Absolute Machine Tools, Inc.

Lorain, OH · ~56 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Absolute Machine Tools, Inc. runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial machinery and equipment (except electrical) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Absolute Machine Tools, Inc.: 3.2 TCR = 146% of Industrial machinery and equipment (except electrical) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Absolute Machine Tools, Inc. safety composite

Absolute Machine Tools, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Absolute Machine Tools, Inc.: 1.8 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2024

Absolute Machine Tools, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.5 from 1.8 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Lorain, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.2 · 146% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #46/65
  • PHOTO Branch 30
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Branch 30 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Absolute Machine Tools, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Absolute Machine Tools, Inc. averages 3.2 TCR (146% of the Industrial machinery and equipment (except electrical) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Absolute Machine Tools, Inc. TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Absolute Machine Tools, Inc. falls in its industry

911 Industrial machinery and equip establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 65 Industrial machinery and equip employers in Ohio.

Absolute Machine Tools, Inc. (56 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Absolute Machine Tools, Inc.
Absolute Machine Tools, Inc. (56 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Absolute Machine Tools, Inc. has more employees than the Industrial machinery and equipment (exce median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 3.3 1.6 2 0 0
2023 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2022 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2021 4.8 1.6 3 0 0
2020 5.3 3.5 3 0 0
2019 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.4 3.4 2 0 0
2017 3.5 0.0 2 0 0
2016 1.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · OH · Lorain

911 Industrial machinery and equipment (except electrical) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 85 employers in Lorain, 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 Branch 30 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Suwanee Branch 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DNOW US ND Williston 5072 Owan Industrial Park Dr 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR North American Service Center 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rindler Poultry LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canton General Service Center 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 919-NiSource-Chillicothe OH-Three Rivers Op 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 977-NiSource-Findlay OH-Lake Erie Op Ctr 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Regional Medical Center 1,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Regional Medical Center 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain Family Health Center & Surgery Center 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain FHC Surgery 412 FTE
NAT-TCR Pregis- Grand Rapids 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hutto TX Millwork 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lamart Corporation 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Gerstner Electric, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ketchikan Alaska CS 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milton - BMD 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haynes Industrial 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montgomery Place Nursing Center 56 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.