Fiberglass Insulation Products Manufacturing · Ohio

Defiance 8

Defiance, OH · ~437 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Defiance 8 runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fiberglass Insulation Products Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Defiance 8: 1.4 TCR = 43% of Fiberglass Insulation Products Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Defiance 8 safety composite

Defiance 8 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

Defiance 8 held a steady TCR band

Defiance 8's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.9 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.9 · 2017=0.7 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=0.5 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=1.0 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 43% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #10/15
  • PHOTO Armstrong World Indu…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~437 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Armstrong World Industries Pensacola Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Defiance 8 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Defiance 8 averages 1.4 TCR (43% 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 8 TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=0.7 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=0.5 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=1 · 2024=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Defiance 8 falls in its industry

101 Fiberglass Insulation Products establishments

Safer than 65% 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 #10 safest of 15 Fiberglass Insulation Products employers in Ohio.

Defiance 8 (437 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 8
Defiance 8 (437 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Defiance 8 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 1.0 1.0 5 0 0
2023 1.0 0.8 5 0 0
2022 1.7 0.8 8 0 0
2021 1.9 0.4 8 1 0
2020 4.2 3.0 8 9 0
2019 0.5 0.0 2 0 0
2018 1.1 0.7 5 0 0
2017 0.7 0.4 3 0 0
2016 0.9 0.5 4 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 Armstrong World Industries Pensacola Plant 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owens Corning Nephi 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OWENS CORNING- Kansas City 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OC - Delmar, NY 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE K003-M002 437 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supply Chain Dayton OH Unison 437 FTE
STATE-SIZE Component Repair Technologies 437 FTE
STATE-SIZE Solon Call Ctr Access to Care 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campbell Soup Supply Company, LLC 1,425 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors LLC. 734 FTE
CITY-NEAR Defiance Regional Medical Center 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Defiance Regional Hospital 348 FTE
NAT-TCR PSC Industries - Kentucky Street 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Champaign 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Water Reclamation Facility 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Tool 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Madison 437 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Model Program Development Center 437 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raytheon_Goleta_CA_EW 437 FTE
NAT-SIZE McGard llc 437 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.