Floor coverings, rubber, manufacturing · Ohio

Barberton

Barberton, OH · ~164 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Barberton runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Floor coverings, rubber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Barberton: 2.7 TCR = 81% of Floor coverings, rubber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barberton safety composite

Barberton scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

Barberton: 1.2 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.21× in 2024

Barberton's TCR rose 2.1 from 1.2 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Barberton, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 81% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #102/270
  • PHOTO AHF Products Lancast…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~164 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AHF Products Lancaster Floor Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Barberton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Barberton averages 2.7 TCR (81% of the Floor coverings, rubber, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Barberton TCR series: 2016=1.2 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Barberton falls in its industry

2,838 Floor coverings, rubber, manuf establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #102 safest of 270 Floor coverings, rubber, manuf employers in Ohio.

Barberton (164 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Barberton
Barberton (164 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Barberton has more employees than the Floor coverings, rubber, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 3.3 0.6 5 1 0
2023 2.8 2.2 5 0 0
2022 3.2 2.1 6 0 0
2021 4.5 3.2 3 4 0
2020 1.3 0.0 2 0 0
2019 3.6 3.0 6 0 0
2018 1.9 1.9 3 0 0
2017 2.4 2.4 4 0 0
2016 1.2 0.6 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · OH · Barberton

2,838 Floor coverings, rubber, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 58 employers in Barberton, 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 AHF Products Lancaster Floor Plant 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tulip Molded Plastics LLC 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SYNCOT SOUTH 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Engineered Composites Inc 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zimmer Power Station 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE McConnell Excavating Ltd 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shook Construction Co. - Moraine 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hanna Road and Short Term 164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barberton Campus 888 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWX Technologies, Inc. Nuclear Operations Group - Barberton 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWX Technologies, LLC 737 FTE
CITY-NEAR S.A. Comunale - Norton 612 FTE
NAT-TCR Des Moines Refinery 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Knight Electric LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR SSD Contracting LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Aitkin/Specialty Clinic - Riverwood 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Battle Creek Mi - 3151 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chesterfield Mi - 3299 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elizabethtown Ky - 3375 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisville Ky - 3373 164 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.