Machine shops · Ohio

Best Mold & Mfg

Akron, OH · ~39 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Best Mold & Mfg runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade C.

Best Mold & Mfg: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Mold & Mfg safety composite

Best Mold & Mfg scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Best Mold & Mfg: 0.0 → 11.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2024

Best Mold & Mfg's TCR rose 11.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 11.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Akron, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #90/172
  • PHOTO Craig Instruments Ltd
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Craig Instruments Ltd (0.0 TCR gap)

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Best Mold & Mfg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Mold & Mfg averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Best Mold & Mfg TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=11.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Best Mold & Mfg falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 56% 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 #90 safest of 172 Machine shops employers in Ohio.

Best Mold & Mfg (39 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Best Mold & Mfg
Best Mold & Mfg (39 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Best Mold & Mfg has fewer employees than the Machine shops 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 11.8 2.4 5 0 0
2023 4.8 0.0 2 0 0
2022 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · OH · Akron

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 512 employers in Akron, 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 Craig Instruments Ltd 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fluke Metal Products, Inc 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOR Lenexa 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Muthig Industries LLC 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE DRW PACKING INC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE OHI Greenhouse LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bridgewater Dairy LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rossburg Facility 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron 6,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron Children's Hospital 6,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summa Health - Akron City 4,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron General Medical Center 4,176 FTE
NAT-TCR Yetter Manufacturing Company - Macomb 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR South Holland Bakery Supply 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Detroit HVC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR RMF Steel Products Co 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Airtech Products, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE The HMC Group Marketing, INC 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Higgins Supply Co., Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Piping & Welding LLC 39 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. 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.