Welding equipment manufacturing · Ohio

Central Ohio Fabricators

Mount Vernon, OH · ~36 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Central Ohio Fabricators runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Welding equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Central Ohio Fabricators: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Welding equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Ohio Fabricators safety composite

Central Ohio Fabricators scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Central Ohio Fabricators: 0.0 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 3.47× in 2024

Central Ohio Fabricators's TCR rose 3.1 from 0.0 in 2018 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 3.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333992 · Mount Vernon, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #2/22
  • PHOTO Fusion, Incorporated…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fusion, Incorporated - Plant 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Ohio employers → · Look up another →

Central Ohio Fabricators in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Ohio Fabricators averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Welding equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Central Ohio Fabricators TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Central Ohio Fabricators falls in its industry

129 Welding equipment manufacturin establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 22 Welding equipment manufacturin employers in Ohio.

Central Ohio Fabricators (36 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Central Ohio Fabricators
Central Ohio Fabricators (36 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Central Ohio Fabricators has fewer employees than the Welding equipment manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333992 · OH · Mount Vernon

129 Welding equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 48 employers in Mount Vernon, 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 Fusion, Incorporated - Plant 1 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Branson Ultrasonics Corporation Brookfield 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Fabrication Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Postle Industries Inc. 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE STEYER SEEDS LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Biosecurity Building 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE BrennCo Inc 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE EAST CREEK FARM LLC 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ariel Corporation 1,416 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ariel Mt. Vernon 1,411 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knox Community Hospital 1,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mount Vernon Nazarene University 1,063 FTE
NAT-TCR Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Owens Corning Waxahachie 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR PSA - Greenville 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR IAFF Recovery Center 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seneca Mechanical, LLC 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE J and H Heating Inc 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frost Museum 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Music Service Sioux Falls 36 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. 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.