Machine shops · Ohio

Gear Co. of America, Inc.

Cleveland, OH · ~47 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gear Co. of America, Inc. runs at 312% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

Gear Co. of America, Inc.: 10.3 TCR = 312% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gear Co. of America, Inc. safety composite

Gear Co. of America, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Gear Co. of America, Inc.: 5.1 → 23.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 23.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2023

Gear Co. of America, Inc.'s TCR rose 18.5 from 5.1 in 2017 to 23.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Cleveland, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 312% of ind

  • DART 11.8 DART
  • RANK #170/172
  • PHOTO Dixie Precision Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dixie Precision Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gear Co. of America, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gear Co. of America, Inc. averages 10.3 TCR (312% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Gear Co. of America, Inc. TCR series: 2017=5.1 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=10.2 · 2023=23.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Gear Co. of America, Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #170 safest of 172 Machine shops employers in Ohio.

Gear Co. of America, Inc. (47 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gear Co. of America, Inc.
Gear Co. of America, Inc. (47 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Gear Co. of America, Inc. has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 23.6 11.8 5 5 0
2021 10.2 2.5 2 2 0
2020 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2017 5.1 1.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · OH · Cleveland

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 922 employers in Cleveland, 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 Dixie Precision Inc 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marton Precision Manufacturing LLC 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Izza Manufacturing and Coatings 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR UCG 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gerber Farm Division 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE MDP Acquisition LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Potemkin Industries, Inc. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE 259-NiSource-Springfield OH 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Main Campus 25,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 20,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Medical Center 10,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - CLEVELAND 3,641 FTE
NAT-TCR Sioux City Foundry Co 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR In-Flight Catering 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tim Ryan Construction, Inc. 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Global Inactive Ships Philadelphia 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE North America : Wedowee 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zapata Construction New York 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4018 Maryville College 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8052 U of L Mary and Elizabeth Hospital EVS 47 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, 2021, 2020, 2017. 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.