Automobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing · Ohio

Alex Products, Inc. - Paulding Plant

Name: Alex Products, Inc. - Paulding Plant Workplace Safety Data
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Paulding, OH · ~189 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 2.7
Avg TCR: 5.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Alex Products, Inc. - Paulding Plant runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Automobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Alex Products, Inc. - Paulding Plant: 2.7 TCR = 50% of Automobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alex Products, Inc. - Paulding Plant safety composite

Alex Products, Inc. - Paulding Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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).

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

Alex Products, Inc. - Paulding Plant: 1.2 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2018

Alex Products, Inc. - Paulding Plant's TCR rose 4.0 from 1.2 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336360 · Paulding, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.7 · 50% of ind

DART 2.1 DART
RANK #21/58
PHOTO Milsco - Redgranite
BOOK 3y book
INJ 18 inj
SIZE ~189 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Milsco - Redgranite (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.7

What this shows Alex Products, Inc. - Paulding Plant averages 2.7 TCR (50% of the Automobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Alex Products, Inc. - Paulding Plant TCR series: 2016=1.2 · 2017=1.7 · 2018=5.2 · BLS 5.4

Where Alex Products, Inc. - Paulding Plant falls in its industry

384 Automobile seat frames, metal, establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 58 Automobile seat frames, metal, employers in Ohio.

Alex Products, Inc. - Paulding Plant (189 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 245 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Alex Products, Inc. - Paulding Plant has fewer employees than the Automobile seat frames, metal, manufactu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2018	5.2	2.1	12
2017	1.7	1.7	3
2016	1.2	0.4	3

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336360 · OH · Paulding

384 Automobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 12 employers in Paulding, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Milsco - Redgranite	REDGRANITE, WI	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	JVIS USA LLC Benton Harbor Crystal	BENTON HARBOR, MI	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	American Seating Company	GRAND RAPIDS, MI	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Jay Industries, Inc.	MANSFIELD, OH	2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Kokosing Alberici Traylor, LLC	WESTERVILLE	189 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Universal Production	NEWARK	189 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ohio Mulch Supply	COLUMBUS, OH	189 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Creative Foam - Dayton	DAYTON	189 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Insource Technologies	Paulding	196 FTE
CITY-NEAR	NASG Seating Paulding, LLC	Paulding	137 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Spartech LLC - Paulding	Paulding	110 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Spartech Corporation	Paulding	100 FTE
NAT-TCR	2 - Theisen's - Maquoketa	Maquoketa, IA	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	MEPPI512	Warrendale, PA	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Marienville	Marienville, PA	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Saec Asc	Oklahoma City, OK	2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	SG360- Gilman Facility	Wheeling, IL	189 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Presence Villa Scalabrini Nursing and Rehabilitation Center	Northlake, IL	189 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Main Office	Hayward, CA	189 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Manor Care Health Services - Denver	Denver, CO	189 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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