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

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.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
avg TCR · per 100 workers
2.2
industry benchmark (BLS)
1
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.2 industry benchmark.

-10123 201920202021 02.2 Industry benchmarkCleveland - BlackHawk Industrial TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 423840.

Where Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial falls in its industry

796 Abrasives merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 59 Abrasives merchant wholesalers employers in Ohio.

Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial has an average TCR of 0.8, which is 39% of the industry average (2.2) for Abrasives merchant wholesalers. This is significantly better than average.

The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.

Trend analysis for Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial

Between 2019 and 2021, Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial's Total Case Rate improved from 2.6 to 0.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 100% decrease across 2 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2020, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2019 saw the highest rate, at 2.6, a spread of 2.6 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 3 reporting years, Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial recorded 1 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 423840 - Abrasives merchant wholesalers.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2021)

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 25,414 hours worked = 0.00 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial (this establishment) 0.85 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg
5085 industry avg 2.20 BLS IIF, NAICS 423840
Ohio state avg (all industries) 3.90 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

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

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Abrasives merchant wholesalers peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

  • At 39% of the Abrasives merchant wholesalers benchmark, Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Abrasives merchant wholesalers sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial's safety grade?
Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial has a safety grade of A (Excellent Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 0.8 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.2 for Abrasives merchant wholesalers.
How many injuries has Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial reported?
Cleveland - BlackHawk Industrial has reported 1 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 3 years of OSHA data (2021, 2020, 2019). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.