Aircraft engine and engine parts (except carburetors, pistons, piston rings, valves) manufacturing · Ohio

Barnes Aerospace West Chester Division

West Chester, OH · ~291 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Barnes Aerospace West Chester Division runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Aircraft engine and engine parts (except carburetors, pistons, piston rings, valves) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Barnes Aerospace West Chester Division: 1.8 TCR = 55% of Aircraft engine and engine parts (except carburetors, pistons, piston rings, valves) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barnes Aerospace West Chester Division safety composite

Barnes Aerospace West Chester Division scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2016→2024

Barnes Aerospace West Chester Division injury rate improved

Barnes Aerospace West Chester Division's TCR fell 1.8 from 2.8 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.8 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=0.4 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336412 · West Chester, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #34/46
  • PHOTO Pursuit Aerospace DB…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~291 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pursuit Aerospace DBA Whitcraft South Windsor (0.0 TCR gap)

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Barnes Aerospace West Chester Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Barnes Aerospace West Chester Division averages 1.8 TCR (55% of the Aircraft engine and engine parts (except carburetors, pistons, piston rings, valves) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Barnes Aerospace West Chester Division TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=0.4 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Barnes Aerospace West Chester Division falls in its industry

366 Aircraft engine and engine par establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 46 Aircraft engine and engine par employers in Ohio.

Barnes Aerospace West Chester Division (291 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 012345 Average employees Total Case Rate Barnes Aerospace West Chester Division
Barnes Aerospace West Chester Division (291 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Barnes Aerospace West Chester Division has more employees than the Aircraft engine and engine parts (except median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 0.9 0.5 2 0 0
2023 1.5 0.5 3 0 0
2022 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 2.9 2.9 6 0 0
2020 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2019 2.7 0.9 8 1 0
2018 1.8 1.4 5 0 0
2017 2.8 1.7 7 1 0
2016 2.8 2.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336412 · OH · West Chester

366 Aircraft engine and engine parts (except carburetors, pistons, piston rings, valves) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 205 employers in West Chester, 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 Pursuit Aerospace DBA Whitcraft South Windsor 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MB Aerospace East Granby 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Triumph Accessory Services 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Services Lafayette Engine Facility 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gutridge 291 FTE
STATE-SIZE BEF Lima 291 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bemis North America - Fremont 291 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1521 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lithko Contracting, LLC 2,120 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Chester Hospital LLC 1,413 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cornerstone Services Group 1,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ohio DC2 939 FTE
NAT-TCR DeKalb Mechanical, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dart Container Quitman 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR YKK (USA) Inc. Snap and Button Products 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Economy Plumbing & Sheet Metal LLC dba Economy Plumbing & Air Conditioning 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spartanburg 291 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone Gibbstown Facility 291 FTE
NAT-SIZE Munson Medical Group 291 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 291 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.

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