Dampers, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · Ohio

Effox inc.

Cincinnati, OH · ~28 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Effox inc. runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dampers, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Effox inc.: 4.6 TCR = 140% of Dampers, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Effox inc. safety composite

Effox inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Effox inc.: 2.6 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.44× in 2020

Effox inc.'s TCR rose 8.7 from 2.6 in 2016 to 11.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Cincinnati, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 140% of ind

  • DART 11.3 DART
  • RANK #42/90
  • PHOTO Innovative Metal Ind…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Innovative Metal Industries, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Effox inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Effox inc. averages 4.6 TCR (140% of the Dampers, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Effox inc. TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2018=0 · 2020=11.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Effox inc. falls in its industry

1,158 Dampers, sheet metal (except s establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 90 Dampers, sheet metal (except s employers in Ohio.

Effox inc. (28 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Effox inc.
Effox inc. (28 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Effox inc. has fewer employees than the Dampers, sheet metal (except stampings), median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2020 11.3 11.3 0 3 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.6 2.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · OH · Cincinnati

1,158 Dampers, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,513 employers in Cincinnati, 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 Innovative Metal Industries, Inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jacksonville, TX 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Matcor Metal Fabrication Morton 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Batavia Plant 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE H and M Building 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fine Oak Farm 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Canton Hatchery 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Small's Sand & Gravel, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 17,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Operations 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Evendale, OH 7,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain Evendale OH 6,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Batavia Plant 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR KBH 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sika Greenstreak 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dun Rite Excavating Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dental office - Brook West Family Dentistry 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fresh Ideas Management- Hannibal-LaGrange University 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dallas TX 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE S03495 - WM of Central IA - Fairfield 28 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: 2020, 2018, 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.