Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Ohio

American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. - Wooster Manufacturing Facility

Wooster, OH · ~186 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. - Wooster Manufacturing Facility runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade B.

American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. - Wooster Manufacturing Facility: 2.4 TCR = 74% of Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. - Wooster Manufacturing Facility safety composite

American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. - Wooster Manufacturing Facility scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. - Wooster Manufacturing Facility held a steady TCR band

American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. - Wooster Manufacturing Facility's TCR held near 0.0 from 2.4 in 2023 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.4 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Wooster, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 74% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/41
  • PHOTO Finkl Steel
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Finkl Steel (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. - Wooster Manufacturing Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. - Wooster Manufacturing Facility averages 2.4 TCR (74% of the Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. - Wooster Manufacturing Facility TCR series: 2023=2.4 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. - Wooster Manufacturing Facility falls in its industry

241 Hot forgings made from purchas establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 41 Hot forgings made from purchas employers in Ohio.

American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. - Wooster Manufacturing Facility (186 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. - Wooster Manufacturing Facility
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. - Wooster Manufacturing Facility (186 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. - Wooster Manufacturing Facility has more employees than the Hot forgings made from purchased iron or median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 2.4 0.0 3 1 0
2023 2.4 0.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · OH · Wooster

241 Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 133 employers in Wooster, 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 Finkl Steel 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Worthington Steel Taylor 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Standard Forged Products 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastham Forge Inc 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lithko Restoration Technologies LLC 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brentwood Originals - OH 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eramet 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scaheffler Transmissions LLC 1,907 FTE
CITY-NEAR LuK USA LLC 1,814 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schaeffler Transmission LLC 1,662 FTE
CITY-NEAR College of Wooster 771 FTE
NAT-TCR Addison Place 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kymay - Maysville 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gawar - Warrenton 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0607 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Daisy Brand Garland 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gouverneur Hospital 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cachi - Chico 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Artex - Texarkana 186 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. 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.