Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Cohen Hamilton

Hamilton, OH · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cohen Hamilton runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Cohen Hamilton: 4.0 TCR = 184% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cohen Hamilton safety composite

Cohen Hamilton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Cohen Hamilton: 0.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2019

Cohen Hamilton's TCR rose 4.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Hamilton, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 184% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #40/79
  • PHOTO Salinas
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Salinas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cohen Hamilton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cohen Hamilton averages 4.0 TCR (184% of the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Cohen Hamilton TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=11.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Cohen Hamilton falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 79 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Ohio.

Cohen Hamilton (23 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Cohen Hamilton
Cohen Hamilton (23 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Cohen Hamilton has fewer employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 11.3 5.7 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · OH · Hamilton

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 153 employers in Hamilton, 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 Salinas 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PADNOS Lansing Division 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PnP Moss Landing 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1944 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE MID EAST PRODUCTION LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schlessman Seed Co 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake County Nursery 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE LCN Holdings Inc dba Lake County Nursery 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Hamilton Hospital 1,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3638-F 890 FTE
CITY-NEAR thyssenkrupp Bilstein of America 657 FTE
CITY-NEAR thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant 653 FTE
NAT-TCR PPOSBC- Victorville 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Briarwood Mall 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Red Wolf Company LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sioux Falls - 502 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Macon Hotels III 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn Statesville 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1600 West Carson St, Pittsburgh, PA 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE CCB 23 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.