Courier Services Except by Air · Ohio

Defiance (Ohdef)

Defiance, OH · ~86 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Defiance (Ohdef) runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade D.

Defiance (Ohdef): 9.3 TCR = 143% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Defiance (Ohdef) safety composite

Defiance (Ohdef) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 9.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.9

2016→2018

Defiance (Ohdef) injury rate improved

Defiance (Ohdef)'s TCR fell 5.9 from 9.2 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.2 · 2017=15.4 · 2018=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Defiance, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 9.3 · 143% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #168/233
  • PHOTO Amazon.com Services …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amazon.com Services LLC - DII4 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Defiance (Ohdef) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Defiance (Ohdef) averages 9.3 TCR (143% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Defiance (Ohdef) TCR series: 2016=9.2 · 2017=15.4 · 2018=3.3 · BLS 6.5

Where Defiance (Ohdef) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #168 safest of 233 Courier Services Except by Air employers in Ohio.

Defiance (Ohdef) (86 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Defiance (Ohdef)
Defiance (Ohdef) (86 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Defiance (Ohdef) has fewer employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2018 3.3 0.0 2 0 0
2017 15.4 6.8 8 1 0
2016 9.2 9.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · OH · Defiance

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air 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 Amazon.com Services LLC - DII4 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DIL7 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WIAIR - MKE AIR GATEWAY 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx 1560 FAIRVIEW RD 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Preferred Real Estate Investments Inc 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Welty Building Company 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Agri Systems - Napoleon 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE 104157 - Timber Road IV Wind Farm 86 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 Giant Food Stores 6514 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Enterprise Rent-A-Car 5543 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilldrup Companies - Richmond 606 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Stier Supply Co. 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rome Center (Nyrom) 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Potsdam (Nypot) 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE White River (Vtwri) 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE L&D-Aviation Blvd (Kyhb1) 86 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: 2018, 2017, 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.