Investment castings, aluminum, unfinished, manufacturing · Ohio

Brost Foundry (Cleveland)

Cleveland, OH · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brost Foundry (Cleveland) runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Investment castings, aluminum, unfinished, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Brost Foundry (Cleveland): 5.3 TCR = 159% of Investment castings, aluminum, unfinished, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brost Foundry (Cleveland) safety composite

Brost Foundry (Cleveland) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Brost Foundry (Cleveland): 5.1 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2017

Brost Foundry (Cleveland)'s TCR rose 0.4 from 5.1 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331524 · Cleveland, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 159% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #16/31
  • PHOTO Temple Aluminum Foun…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Temple Aluminum Foundry, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brost Foundry (Cleveland) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brost Foundry (Cleveland) averages 5.3 TCR (159% of the Investment castings, aluminum, unfinished, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Brost Foundry (Cleveland) TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Brost Foundry (Cleveland) falls in its industry

156 Investment castings, aluminum, establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 31 Investment castings, aluminum, employers in Ohio.

Brost Foundry (Cleveland) (20 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 7.0 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 02004006008001,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Brost Foundry (Cleveland)
Brost Foundry (Cleveland) (20 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 7.0

Brost Foundry (Cleveland) has fewer employees than the Investment castings, aluminum, unfinishe median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.0. 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
2017 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2016 5.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331524 · OH · Cleveland

156 Investment castings, aluminum, unfinished, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 922 employers in Cleveland, 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 Temple Aluminum Foundry, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Aluminum Casting Co 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rootstown GAMCO 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bailsco Blades and Castings, Inc. 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nature Pure Farm 1 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foundry Sand Service LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carroll County Energy LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAES : NTE Middletown 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Main Campus 25,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 20,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Medical Center 10,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - CLEVELAND 3,641 FTE
NAT-TCR South Service Center 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Anaheim (Caana) 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Waverly Health Care and Rehabilitation 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CPS distributors, inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 105 Stonecrest Drive 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Lift Trucks Shreveport 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0787 - Cullman, Al 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0751 - Ridgecrest, Ca 20 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.