Academies, college or university · Ohio

Ashland University

Ashland, OH · ~2,668 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ashland University runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Academies, college or university workplace, earning a grade B.

Ashland University: 0.9 TCR = 68% of Academies, college or university BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ashland University safety composite

Ashland University scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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 University: 0.2 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2017

Ashland University's TCR rose 1.5 from 0.2 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Ashland, OH AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 0.9 · 68% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #5/11
  • PHOTO Des Moines
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~2,668 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Des Moines (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ashland University in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ashland University averages 0.9 TCR (68% of the Academies, college or university BLS benchmark).

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

Ashland University TCR series: 2016=0.2 · 2017=1.7 · BLS 1.4

Where Ashland University falls in its industry

347 Academies, college or universi establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

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 11 Academies, college or universi employers in Ohio.

Ashland University (2,668 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ashland University
Ashland University (2,668 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Ashland University has more employees than the Academies, college or university median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2017 1.7 0.6 21 0 0
2016 0.2 0.1 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · OH · Ashland

347 Academies, college or university employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 68 employers in Ashland, 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 Des Moines 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR University of Minnesota Rochester 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hawaii Pacific University 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana - Bloomington 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mercy Health St Elizabeth Health Hospital 2,679 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Elizabeth Health Center 2,702 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest General 2,617 FTE
STATE-SIZE OHTRA - COLUMBUS 2,615 FTE
CITY-NEAR Samaritan Medical Center 678 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1448 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1448 368 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brethren Care Management Services 349 FTE
NAT-TCR Dallas (Carrollton) Dc 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cinema Equipment & Supplies Inc 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR DeAngelo Brothers OKC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR NW Heavy: WH105, WH106 Monaca PA 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cargill Protein Dodge City 2,668 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lam Research Corp. Tualatin Campus 2,668 FTE
NAT-SIZE Txdal - Dallas 2,669 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seattle Mgmt/CS Alaska 2,669 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: 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.