Salt, table, manufacturing · Ohio

Cargill Salt Akron

Akron, OH · ~99 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill Salt Akron runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Salt, table, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Cargill Salt Akron: 3.9 TCR = 94% of Salt, table, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Salt Akron safety composite

Cargill Salt Akron scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

−1.3

2019→2024

Cargill Salt Akron injury rate improved

Cargill Salt Akron's TCR fell 1.3 from 4.8 in 2019 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.8 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Akron, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 94% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #7/14
  • PHOTO World Flavors
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: World Flavors (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cargill Salt Akron in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill Salt Akron averages 3.9 TCR (94% of the Salt, table, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cargill Salt Akron TCR series: 2019=4.8 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 4.1

Where Cargill Salt Akron falls in its industry

200 Salt, table, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 14 Salt, table, manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Cargill Salt Akron (99 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cargill Salt Akron
Cargill Salt Akron (99 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Cargill Salt Akron has more employees than the Salt, table, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 3.5 3.5 4 0 0
2023 4.6 4.6 5 0 0
2022 4.6 3.7 5 0 0
2021 1.8 0.9 2 0 0
2019 4.8 4.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · OH · Akron

200 Salt, table, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 512 employers in Akron, 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 World Flavors 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ofi - Bayonne 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Givaudan Flavors Carol Stream 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR IFS - UT, Provo 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Air Force One, Inc. (Support Group & Central Region) 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Building Integrated Services, LLC 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE OCP Contractors of Columbus 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vasco Asphalt Company 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron 6,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron Children's Hospital 6,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summa Health - Akron City 4,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron General Medical Center 4,176 FTE
NAT-TCR Highpoint Tool and Machine 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Scosta Corp-Belle Glade 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Chateau Grand Traverse 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dixon 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Korsmo 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meyer Tool Cox Plant 2 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mainland 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mosaic Garden City 99 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.