Dowels, wood, manufacturing · Ohio

Dexter City

Dexter City, OH · ~29 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dexter City runs at 266% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dowels, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Dexter City: 8.8 TCR = 266% of Dowels, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dexter City safety composite

Dexter City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 20.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Dexter City: 2.6 → 20.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 20.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.31× in 2023

Dexter City's TCR rose 17.6 from 2.6 in 2016 to 20.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Dexter City, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 266% of ind

  • DART 20.3 DART
  • RANK #21/22
  • PHOTO Indeck Ladysmith, LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Indeck Ladysmith, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Dexter City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dexter City averages 8.8 TCR (266% of the Dowels, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dexter City TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=6.4 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=18.8 · 2023=20.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Dexter City falls in its industry

405 Dowels, wood, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 22 Dowels, wood, manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Dexter City (29 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dexter City
Dexter City (29 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Dexter City has fewer employees than the Dowels, wood, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2023 20.3 20.3 2 0 0
2022 18.8 18.8 3 0 0
2021 5.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 6.4 6.4 2 0 0
2018 5.2 2.6 2 0 0
2017 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2016 2.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · OH · Dexter City

405 Dowels, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 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 Indeck Ladysmith, LLC 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR StairSupplies-Plant 1E, 1722 Eisenhower Dr. North 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lignetics, Inc- Columbia City 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Champion 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Union City Facility 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Breeder Division Field Office 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plibrico Refractories LLC - Oak Hill 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hanging Rock Energy Facility 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Warren Drilling Co., Inc. 86 FTE
NAT-TCR USM Store #665 (ALBERTSONS MARKET) 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Beacon Specialized Living Minnesota 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100461 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100603 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Springhill Suites by Marriott Sacramento Airport Natomas 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Tigard 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE C&B Winston Salem NC Sales 120 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCRT Yuma Tenant LLC 29 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.