Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers · Ohio

deSter

Lima, OH · ~48 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

deSter runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

deSter: 1.7 TCR = 76% of Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

deSter safety composite

deSter scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

deSter: 0.0 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.45× in 2024

deSter's TCR rose 2.4 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424130 · Lima, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 76% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #6/25
  • PHOTO Bunzl Distribution C…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bunzl Distribution California, LLC (Bunzl Tracy) (0.0 TCR gap)

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deSter in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows deSter averages 1.7 TCR (76% of the Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

deSter TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 2.2

Where deSter falls in its industry

290 Bags, paper and disposable pla establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 25 Bags, paper and disposable pla employers in Ohio.

deSter (48 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate deSter
deSter (48 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9

deSter has fewer employees than the Bags, paper and disposable plastics, mer median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2023 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424130 · OH · Lima

290 Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 243 employers in Lima, 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 Bunzl Distribution California, LLC (Bunzl Tracy) 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veritiv Operating Company - KY006 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inland Paper Company Inc 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bunzl Utah, LLC (DBA R3 Los Angeles) 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ohio Heavy Equipment Leasing, LLC 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butler Rural Electric Cooperative 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Dayton West 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Bronco Services, Inc 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health St Ritas Medical Center 2,540 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Rita's Medical Center 2,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Ritas Medical Center 2,445 FTE
CITY-NEAR LIMA ENGINE 1,457 FTE
NAT-TCR North Andover-Ma28 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Crowther Roofing & Sheet Metal of Florida, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Crew Qtrs Pineywoods 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Blalock Equipment Corp. 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oaks at Eagles Landing 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Terminix Services Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penney Lawn Service Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Styer Transportation Co. 48 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.