Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) · Ohio

Cardinal Operating Company

Brilliant, OH · ~261 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cardinal Operating Company runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) workplace, earning a grade D.

Cardinal Operating Company: 1.6 TCR = 137% of Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal Operating Company safety composite

Cardinal Operating Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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)
D 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.5

2023→2024

Cardinal Operating Company injury rate improved

Cardinal Operating Company's TCR fell 2.5 from 2.9 in 2023 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.9 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221112 · Brilliant, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 1.6 · 137% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #17/25
  • PHOTO Arizona Electric Pow…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~261 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arizona Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cardinal Operating Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cardinal Operating Company averages 1.6 TCR (137% of the Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) BLS benchmark).

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

Cardinal Operating Company TCR series: 2023=2.9 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 1.2

Where Cardinal Operating Company falls in its industry

846 Electric power generation, fos establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 25 Electric power generation, fos employers in Ohio.

Cardinal Operating Company (261 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cardinal Operating Company
Cardinal Operating Company (261 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Cardinal Operating Company has more employees than the Electric power generation, fossil fuel ( median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2023 2.9 0.7 2 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221112 · OH · Brilliant

846 Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 4 employers in Brilliant, 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 Arizona Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant McDonough 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Services : OM - Hawaii, USA 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Comanche Station 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hess Print Solutions 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus Production Facility 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE PRODUCTION PRODUCTS, INC. 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hartzell Propeller Prop Place 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cardinal Plant 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHBRI - BRILLIANT 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR MPW Environmental Services, Inc. - Cardinal Operating Company 47 FTE
NAT-TCR Mill Creek 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Plant 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Terrace at Newark 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Servotronics, Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Generac Power Systems 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kele, Inc. 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cranberry HQ 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE Middlesex Community College 261 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.