Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services in chemical sciences · Ohio

Ashland Inc. - Dublin, Ohio

Dublin, OH · ~453 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ashland Inc. - Dublin, Ohio runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services in chemical sciences workplace, earning a grade C.

Ashland Inc. - Dublin, Ohio: 0.6 TCR = 116% of Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services in chemical sciences BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ashland Inc. - Dublin, Ohio safety composite

Ashland Inc. - Dublin, Ohio scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.96 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

Ashland Inc. - Dublin, Ohio: 0.4 → 1.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.66× in 2018

Ashland Inc. - Dublin, Ohio's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.4 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541711 · Dublin, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 0.6 · 116% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO illumina
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~453 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: illumina (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ashland Inc. - Dublin, Ohio in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ashland Inc. - Dublin, Ohio averages 0.6 TCR (116% of the Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services in chemical sciences BLS benchmark).

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

Ashland Inc. - Dublin, Ohio TCR series: 2016=0.4 · 2017=0.4 · 2018=1 · BLS 0.5

Where Ashland Inc. - Dublin, Ohio falls in its industry

189 Biotechnology research and dev establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Biotechnology research and dev employers in Ohio.

Ashland Inc. - Dublin, Ohio (453 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 296 employees and a TCR of 0.8 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ashland Inc. - Dublin, Ohio
Ashland Inc. - Dublin, Ohio (453 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 296 employees and a TCR of 0.8

Ashland Inc. - Dublin, Ohio has more employees than the Biotechnology research and development l median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.8. 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
2018 1.0 1.0 3 0 0
2017 0.4 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.4 0.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541711 · OH · Dublin

189 Biotechnology research and development laboratories or services in chemical sciences employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 170 employers in Dublin, 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 illumina 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR USDA/ARS/WRRC 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AbbVie Bioresearch Center 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc. 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE S.A. Comunale Corporate 453 FTE
STATE-SIZE The M. K. Morse Company 453 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crescent Park Corporation 453 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraft Heinz Massillon 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardinal Health South Campus 2,093 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardinal Health 7000 and 7200 1,895 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dublin Methodist Hospital 1,460 FTE
CITY-NEAR OCLC, Inc. 824 FTE
NAT-TCR HBSHSENY01 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HBSHSECA3C 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Allergan Inc 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR EMCOR Government Services 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Meritor 453 FTE
NAT-SIZE Osburn Structures 453 FTE
NAT-SIZE Complete Building Services 453 FTE
NAT-SIZE DTRTMIBHDS0 453 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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