Rubber Industry · Ohio

Akron Innovation Center - Goodyear

Akron, OH · ~275 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Akron Innovation Center - Goodyear runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Rubber Industry workplace, earning a grade C.

Akron Innovation Center - Goodyear: 2.7 TCR = 81% of Rubber Industry BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Akron Innovation Center - Goodyear safety composite

Akron Innovation Center - Goodyear scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−1.9

2017→2019

Akron Innovation Center - Goodyear injury rate improved

Akron Innovation Center - Goodyear's TCR fell 1.9 from 3.0 in 2017 to 1.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.0 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326211 · Akron, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 81% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #7/17
  • PHOTO Applied Physical Met…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~275 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Applied Physical Metrology Akron (0.0 TCR gap)

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Akron Innovation Center - Goodyear in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Akron Innovation Center - Goodyear averages 2.7 TCR (81% of the Rubber Industry BLS benchmark).

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

Akron Innovation Center - Goodyear TCR series: 2017=3 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Akron Innovation Center - Goodyear falls in its industry

114 Rubber Industry establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 17 Rubber Industry employers in Ohio.

Akron Innovation Center - Goodyear (275 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 393 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Akron Innovation Center - Goodyear
Akron Innovation Center - Goodyear (275 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 393 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Akron Innovation Center - Goodyear has fewer employees than the Rubber Industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2019 1.1 0.4 3 0 0
2018 3.9 2.8 11 0 0
2017 3.0 2.3 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326211 · OH · Akron

114 Rubber Industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 512 employers in Akron, 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 Applied Physical Metrology Akron 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodyear Fayetteville 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red River Mixing 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cooper Tire and Rubber DC 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Industrial Construction/Engineering 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE COVERT MANUFACTURING INC 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE HDQT1-Prior Building 1 Newbury, OH 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crane Pumps and Systems 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron 6,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron Children's Hospital 6,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summa Health - Akron City 4,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron General Medical Center 4,176 FTE
NAT-TCR Rws Tx Dallas Mesquite 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 855 American Construction Metals 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Savannah (HR) 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR C&C Transload LLLP 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Anheuser-Busch Newark Brewery 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Watertown Family YMCA Childcare 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairgrounds YMCA 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carthage YMCA 275 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.