Drop forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Ohio

Canton Drop Forge

Canton, OH · ~185 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Canton Drop Forge runs at 352% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drop forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade F.

Canton Drop Forge: 11.6 TCR = 352% of Drop forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Canton Drop Forge safety composite

Canton Drop Forge scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

Canton Drop Forge held a steady TCR band

Canton Drop Forge's TCR held near 0.3 from 12.6 in 2016 to 12.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.6 · 2017=12.8 · 2018=16.1 · 2019=10.1 · 2020=5.0 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=15.1 · 2023=12.6 · 2024=12.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Canton, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.6 · 352% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK #37/41
  • PHOTO Schilling Forge
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 177 inj
  • SIZE ~185 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schilling Forge (0.2 TCR gap)

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Canton Drop Forge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Canton Drop Forge averages 11.6 TCR (352% of the Drop forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Canton Drop Forge TCR series: 2016=12.6 · 2017=12.8 · 2018=16.1 · 2019=10.1 · 2020=5 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=15.1 · 2023=12.6 · 2024=12.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Canton Drop Forge falls in its industry

241 Drop forgings made from purcha establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 41 Drop forgings made from purcha employers in Ohio.

Canton Drop Forge (185 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Canton Drop Forge
Canton Drop Forge (185 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Canton Drop Forge has more employees than the Drop forgings made from purchased iron o median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2024 12.9 9.4 28 2 0
2023 12.6 12.1 24 0 0
2022 15.1 15.1 23 0 0
2021 7.3 4.0 5 4 0
2020 5.0 5.0 6 0 0
2019 10.1 4.3 19 0 0
2018 16.1 8.8 29 4 0
2017 12.8 8.5 24 0 0
2016 12.6 6.0 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · OH · Canton

241 Drop forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 330 employers in Canton, 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 Schilling Forge 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR xcal tools 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Medico Industries Inc. 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Location 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Solon Bakery 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Molten North America Corp 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eberhard Manufacturing Company 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aultman Main Campus 3,796 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aultman Hospital 3,406 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center, Inc 2,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hosp 2,321 FTE
NAT-TCR Commercial Metal Forming - California 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Oxnard 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NA-US-MA-Wilmington-240 Ballardvale 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CEDI San Jose 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Farris Fab and Machine Inc 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE AXIOS Deer Park 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precision Vehicle Solutions - Flint 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0070 185 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.