Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing · Ohio

Bostik Inc. Ashland, Ohio

Ashland, OH · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bostik Inc. Ashland, Ohio runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Bostik Inc. Ashland, Ohio: 1.7 TCR = 51% of Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bostik Inc. Ashland, Ohio safety composite

Bostik Inc. Ashland, Ohio scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

Bostik Inc. Ashland, Ohio: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Bostik Inc. Ashland, Ohio's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Ashland, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/38
  • PHOTO Frankfort - Fey
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Frankfort - Fey (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bostik Inc. Ashland, Ohio in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bostik Inc. Ashland, Ohio averages 1.7 TCR (51% of the Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bostik Inc. Ashland, Ohio TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Bostik Inc. Ashland, Ohio falls in its industry

287 Adhesives (except asphalt, den establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 38 Adhesives (except asphalt, den employers in Ohio.

Bostik Inc. Ashland, Ohio (40 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bostik Inc. Ashland, Ohio
Bostik Inc. Ashland, Ohio (40 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Bostik Inc. Ashland, Ohio has fewer employees than the Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · OH · Ashland

287 Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 68 employers in Ashland, 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 Frankfort - Fey 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR XL Brands 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Willamette Valley Company - Eclectic Products 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAPEI Dalton #1 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Croton Pullet 2 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chemsteel Construction Company 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE BluSky Restoration Contractors Toledo 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Summit Construction Company LLC (Akron) 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ashland University 2,668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Samaritan Medical Center 678 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1448 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1448 368 FTE
NAT-TCR Hoffman Mechanical Solutions, Inc - Columbia 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Keystone RV Company - Plant 29 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Satellite Careers Academy 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Marsh Enterprises, LLC 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Impact Operations 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hydra Pools, Inc - Sweetwater 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Partners Insulation North (BDI) 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Systems West, LLC 40 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. 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.