Employer · Ohio

Ball Tinplate 026 Columbus

Name: Ball Tinplate 026 Columbus Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Columbus, OH · ~241 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Ball Tinplate 026 Columbus runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Ball Tinplate 026 Columbus: 4.3 TCR = 131% of industry BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ball Tinplate 026 Columbus safety composite

Ball Tinplate 026 Columbus scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 4.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Ball Tinplate 026 Columbus: 3.7 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2018

Ball Tinplate 026 Columbus's TCR rose 1.3 from 3.7 in 2017 to 5.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332431 · Columbus, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 131% of ind

DART 4.1 DART
RANK #20/24
PHOTO BWAY Fontana
BOOK 2y book
INJ 17 inj
SIZE ~241 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BWAY Fontana (0.0 TCR gap)

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BWAY York

4.4
This site

4.3
BWAY Fontana

4.3
Greif Winfield

4.3
Ardagh Metal P

4.2

What this shows Ball Tinplate 026 Columbus averages 4.3 TCR (131% of the industry BLS benchmark).

Ball Tinplate 026 Columbus TCR series: 2017=3.7 · 2018=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Ball Tinplate 026 Columbus falls in its industry

217 industry establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 24 industry employers in Ohio.

Ball Tinplate 026 Columbus (241 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Ball Tinplate 026 Columbus has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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	5.0	4.1	12	0	0
2017	3.7	1.6	5	4	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332431 · OH · Columbus

217 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, 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	BWAY Fontana	FONTANA, CA	4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Greif Winfield	WINFIELD, KS	4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	BWAY York	YORK, PA	4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ardagh Metal Packaging - Whitehouse	WHITEHOUSE, OH	4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Rudolph Libbe Inc.	WALBRIDGE	241 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ohio State Waterproofing	MACEDONIA	241 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rohrer Corporation - Wadsworth	WADSWORTH	241 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Middlefield	MIDDLEFIELD	241 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Nationwide Children's Hospital	Columbus	13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus	Columbus	10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Riverside Methodist Hospital	Columbus	9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR	North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1	Columbus	5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR	RiverBend Medical Group-Agwam	Agawam, MA	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	2073-EJ-20730180-MX	Houston, TX	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	JX Peterbilt - Fort Wayne	New Haven, IN	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Capri Foods Inc.	Litchfield, IL	4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Eastern North Regional Sales Office	Horsham, PA	241 FTE
NAT-SIZE	USA Detroit Lucas Dr	Detroit, MI	241 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC- 127	Cedar Knolls, NJ	241 FTE
NAT-SIZE	HonorHealth Rehabilitation Hospital	Scottsdale, AZ	241 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. 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.