Fiberglass Insulation Products Manufacturing · Ohio

Defiance 2

Defiance, OH · ~209 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Defiance 2 runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fiberglass Insulation Products Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Defiance 2: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Fiberglass Insulation Products Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Defiance 2 safety composite

Defiance 2 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Defiance 2: 1.4 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.34× in 2024

Defiance 2's TCR rose 0.7 from 1.4 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327993 · Defiance, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #5/15
  • PHOTO Owens Corning Waxaha…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~209 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Owens Corning Waxahachie (0.0 TCR gap)

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Defiance 2 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Defiance 2 averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Fiberglass Insulation Products Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Defiance 2 TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=0.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=0.4 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Defiance 2 falls in its industry

101 Fiberglass Insulation Products establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 15 Fiberglass Insulation Products employers in Ohio.

Defiance 2 (209 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Defiance 2
Defiance 2 (209 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Defiance 2 has more employees than the Fiberglass Insulation Products Manufactu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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 2.1 2.1 4 0 0
2023 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2022 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 1.4 0.9 1 2 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2017 1.2 0.8 2 1 0
2016 1.4 0.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327993 · OH · Defiance

101 Fiberglass Insulation Products Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 65 employers in Defiance, 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 Owens Corning Waxahachie 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tiffin OH Soltech Owens Corning 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roxul USA, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owens Corning Thermafiber Joplin 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE ES NA Services 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE Byesville, OH 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kahiki 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE DUF6 - Portsmouth 209 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campbell Soup Supply Company, LLC 1,425 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors LLC. 734 FTE
CITY-NEAR Defiance 8 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Defiance Regional Medical Center 363 FTE
NAT-TCR MSK Precision Products 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Work Tools Logistics Facility 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CMC Recycling Fort Worth 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fisher Auto Parts - RNKEVA 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Matcor Automotive (Michigan) Inc. 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE USU 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carteret 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE B.R. Kreider & Son, Inc. 209 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, 2021, 2020, 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.