Abrasives merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial

Brunswick, OH · ~32 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Abrasives merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial: 0.8 TCR = 39% of Abrasives merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial safety composite

Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.6

2019→2021

Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial injury rate improved

Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial's TCR fell 2.6 from 2.6 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.6 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Brunswick, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/48
  • PHOTO Branch 002 - 529
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Branch 002 - 529 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial averages 0.8 TCR (39% of the Abrasives merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial TCR series: 2019=2.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial falls in its industry

589 Abrasives merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 48 Abrasives merchant wholesalers employers in Ohio.

Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial (32 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial
Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial (32 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial has fewer employees than the Abrasives merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · OH · Brunswick

589 Abrasives merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 52 employers in Brunswick, 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 Branch 002 - 529 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MERLIN STELZER SALES CO., INC. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salem Tools, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lawson Products-Corporate 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Custom Agri Systems - Upper Sandusky 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tiffin Svc Ctr 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delaware Svc Ctr 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Electric, Inc. 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brunswick Family Health Center 253 FTE
CITY-NEAR Giant Eagle #0229 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brunswick Family Hlth Ctr 228 FTE
CITY-NEAR All Construction 191 FTE
NAT-TCR 3 Cooper/Sheridan Pavilion 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sandee Manufacturing 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Glasforms 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carol Stream - BlackHawk Industrial 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thompson Fab 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE GAM Enterprises 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE CSI of Western Kentucky 32 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: 2021, 2020, 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.