Air compressors manufacturing · Ohio

Ariel Akron

Akron, OH · ~202 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ariel Akron runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Air compressors manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Ariel Akron: 3.1 TCR = 93% of Air compressors manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ariel Akron safety composite

Ariel Akron scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ariel Akron: 2.2 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.54× in 2024

Ariel Akron's TCR rose 0.6 from 2.2 in 2022 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333912 · Akron, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 93% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #15/19
  • PHOTO Associate Engineerin…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~202 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Associate Engineering Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ariel Akron in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ariel Akron averages 3.1 TCR (93% of the Air compressors manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ariel Akron TCR series: 2022=2.2 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ariel Akron falls in its industry

128 Air compressors manufacturing establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

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 19 Air compressors manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Ariel Akron (202 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ariel Akron
Ariel Akron (202 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Ariel Akron has more employees than the Air compressors manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 2.8 1.7 5 0 0
2023 4.3 3.2 8 0 0
2022 2.2 1.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333912 · OH · Akron

128 Air compressors manufacturing 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 Associate Engineering Corporation 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Air Squared 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ANGI Energy 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sullivan-Palatek Inc 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Brewer-Garrett Company 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE KUTOL PRODUCTS COMPANY 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whirlaway Corporation Plant 1 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waltco Lift Corp-Tallmadge 202 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 North Shore Supply Company.Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Emerald Spring Dairy, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Landis Express 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Design Electric INC. 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Baltimore MD 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sofidel 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE J L Marshall & Sons, Inc 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABDD 202 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.