Baling machinery (e.g., paper, scrap metal) manufacturing · Ohio

Ely Enterprises Inc

Lorain, OH · ~24 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ely Enterprises Inc runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Baling machinery (e.g., paper, scrap metal) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ely Enterprises Inc: 6.2 TCR = 189% of Baling machinery (e.g., paper, scrap metal) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ely Enterprises Inc safety composite

Ely Enterprises Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ely Enterprises Inc: 0.0 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Ely Enterprises Inc's TCR rose 4.4 from 0.0 in 2021 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333999 · Lorain, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 189% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #29/30
  • PHOTO A&E Grinding
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: A&E Grinding (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ely Enterprises Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ely Enterprises Inc averages 6.2 TCR (189% of the Baling machinery (e.g., paper, scrap metal) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ely Enterprises Inc TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=9 · 2023=11.6 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Ely Enterprises Inc falls in its industry

242 Baling machinery (e.g., paper, establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 30 Baling machinery (e.g., paper, employers in Ohio.

Ely Enterprises Inc (24 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Ely Enterprises Inc
Ely Enterprises Inc (24 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Ely Enterprises Inc has fewer employees than the Baling machinery (e.g., paper, scrap met median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 4.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 11.6 7.7 3 0 0
2022 9.0 4.5 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333999 · OH · Lorain

242 Baling machinery (e.g., paper, scrap metal) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 85 employers in Lorain, 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 A&E Grinding 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Separators (loc code: SEPARA) 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industrial Processing Equipment 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 23 North 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE LCN 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAES: Fremont 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMP Fremont Energy Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bucyrus Service Center 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Regional Medical Center 1,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Regional Medical Center 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain Family Health Center & Surgery Center 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain FHC Surgery 412 FTE
NAT-TCR Universal Manufacturing Corp 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Auburn Hotel Ventures, LLC 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Maine Course Hospitality Group - Homewood Suites/Tru Hotels 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Freeman Corporation 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 163523-Woodbury | CT | 163523 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weld School District 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE DED - Grainger 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Webb Metals Recycling LLC 24 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. 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.