Urethane foam products manufacturing · Ohio

Barberton Ohio Plant

Barberton, OH · ~77 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Barberton Ohio Plant runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Urethane foam products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Barberton Ohio Plant: 2.6 TCR = 78% of Urethane foam products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barberton Ohio Plant safety composite

Barberton Ohio Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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 Ohio Plant: 1.3 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2024

Barberton Ohio Plant's TCR rose 1.1 from 1.3 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Barberton, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 78% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #15/26
  • PHOTO Future Foam Orlando
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Future Foam Orlando (0.0 TCR gap)

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Barberton Ohio Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Barberton Ohio Plant averages 2.6 TCR (78% of the Urethane foam products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Barberton Ohio Plant TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0.2 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Barberton Ohio Plant falls in its industry

474 Urethane foam products manufac establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

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 26 Urethane foam products manufac employers in Ohio.

Barberton Ohio Plant (77 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Barberton Ohio Plant
Barberton Ohio Plant (77 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Barberton Ohio Plant has more employees than the Urethane foam products manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 2.4 1.2 2 0 0
2023 0.2 0.1 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.4 4.3 5 0 0
2020 6.5 1.3 3 2 0
2019 3.9 2.6 3 0 0
2018 3.5 3.5 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · OH · Barberton

474 Urethane foam products 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 Future Foam Orlando 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Derby Fabricating Solutions - Corporate 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foamcraft Inc. Indy 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pregis- Tupelo 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zanesville Svc Ctr 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grandview Service Center 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohio Gas Company 77 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 Division 28 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Huntington 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 620 Main Street 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Milk Specialties Global Visalia 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Swlp Usc 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1701 Lkq 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Customer Service Group Robesonia Velocity Center 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store #71 77 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.