Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing · Ohio

Cleveland Gear Company, Inc.

Name: Cleveland Gear Company, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
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Cleveland, OH · ~97 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Cleveland Gear Company, Inc. runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Cleveland Gear Company, Inc.: 2.8 TCR = 84% of Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cleveland Gear Company, Inc. safety composite

Cleveland Gear Company, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Cleveland Gear Company, Inc.: 0.0 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2019

Cleveland Gear Company, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333612 · Cleveland, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 84% of ind

DART 5.5 DART
RANK #4/10
PHOTO PIC Design
BOOK 2y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PIC Design (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.8
PIC Design

2.8
B&B Manufactur

2.7
Columbia Gear

2.5

What this shows Cleveland Gear Company, Inc. averages 2.8 TCR (84% of the Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Cleveland Gear Company, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2019=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Cleveland Gear Company, Inc. falls in its industry

106 Gears, power transmission (exc establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 10 Gears, power transmission (exc employers in Ohio.

Cleveland Gear Company, Inc. (97 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Cleveland Gear Company, Inc. has more employees than the Gears, power transmission (except aircra median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2019	5.5	5.5	6	0	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333612 · OH · Cleveland

106 Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 922 employers in Cleveland, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	PIC Design	MIDDLEBURY, CT	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	B&B Manufacturing	LA PORTE, IN	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CGI, INC.	CARSON CITY, NV	3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Columbia Gear	AVON, MN	2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Layer Site 4	CROTON	97 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Spieker Company	NORTHWOOD	97 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Smoot Construction - Company of Ohio	COLUMBUS	97 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Strawser Paving Company	COLUMBUS	97 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cleveland Clinic Main Campus	Cleveland	25,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR	The Cleveland Clinic Foundation	Cleveland	20,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cleveland Medical Center	Cleveland	10,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - CLEVELAND	Cleveland	3,641 FTE
NAT-TCR	Triangle Services - Tampa (TPA) Aviation Svcs	Tampa, FL	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Superior Essex Energy LLC	Tarboro, NC	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sauget Facility	Sauget, IL	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors Lockport New Construction	Lockport, LA	2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Fortune Plastics - Lebanon	Lebanon, TN	97 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ambassador Sanitation Management, LLC @ Fieldale Farms Corporation - Murrayville	Murrayville, GA	97 FTE
NAT-SIZE	24-355 Pet	Atlanta, GA	97 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Georgia Sheeting & Shoring	Austell, GA	97 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: 2019, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.