Shims, metal, manufacturing · Ohio

Buschman Corporation

Cleveland, OH · ~25 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buschman Corporation runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Shims, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Buschman Corporation: 2.8 TCR = 84% of Shims, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buschman Corporation safety composite

Buschman Corporation scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

Buschman Corporation held a steady TCR band

Buschman Corporation's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 12.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=12.3 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Cleveland, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 84% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #25/80
  • PHOTO HyFlex Corporation
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HyFlex Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buschman Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buschman Corporation averages 2.8 TCR (84% of the Shims, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Buschman Corporation TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=0 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=12.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Buschman Corporation falls in its industry

827 Shims, metal, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 80 Shims, metal, manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Buschman Corporation (25 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Buschman Corporation
Buschman Corporation (25 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Buschman Corporation has fewer employees than the Shims, metal, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 12.3 12.3 2 0 0
2020 6.1 6.1 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · OH · Cleveland

827 Shims, metal, 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 HyFlex Corporation 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holliston MFG (GTS, HTAS) 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morgan's Welding LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crosby- Mckissick 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rittman Orchards 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Convoy Dairy LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kalmbach Swine Management 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nature Pure Farm 2 25 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 Land O'Lakes - Hicksville, NY 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sierra Group 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ptcr Tampa 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR the Melanson Company, a Tecta America Company LLC DBA Vermont Roofing Company 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE ELMSFORD 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Babylon 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ptcr Garland 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 25 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.