Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing · Ohio

Creative Foam - Dayton

Dayton, OH · ~189 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Creative Foam - Dayton runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Creative Foam - Dayton: 2.1 TCR = 63% of Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Creative Foam - Dayton safety composite

Creative Foam - Dayton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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)
C 2.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

Creative Foam - Dayton: 2.2 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2024

Creative Foam - Dayton's TCR rose 1.8 from 2.2 in 2022 to 4.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Dayton, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 63% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #11/26
  • PHOTO Zotefoams Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~189 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Zotefoams Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Creative Foam - Dayton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Creative Foam - Dayton averages 2.1 TCR (63% of the Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Creative Foam - Dayton TCR series: 2022=2.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Creative Foam - Dayton falls in its industry

474 Foam plastics products (except establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 26 Foam plastics products (except employers in Ohio.

Creative Foam - Dayton (189 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Creative Foam - Dayton
Creative Foam - Dayton (189 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Creative Foam - Dayton has more employees than the Foam plastics products (except polystren 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
2024 4.0 2.0 8 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · OH · Dayton

474 Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 599 employers in Dayton, 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 Zotefoams Inc 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hunter Panels - Terrell 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Adient, Pulaski Plant 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DuPont Salisbury 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kokosing Alberici Traylor, LLC 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Universal Production 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohio Mulch Supply 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mantua Ohio 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Miami Valley Hospital 6,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Dayton 5,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dayton Children's Hospital 3,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR CareSource Management Services LLC 3,172 FTE
NAT-TCR VFP.inc 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR New Western Manor Company 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairfield Inn & Suites 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Vertical Earth Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hilton Nashville Downtown 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metalcraft of Mayville - Beaver Dam 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE PAM Squared at Las Vegas, LLC 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dawson Geophysical Company 189 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. 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.