Building materials supply dealers · Ohio

Gerber Lumber & Hardware

Kidron, OH · ~43 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gerber Lumber & Hardware runs at 180% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Building materials supply dealers workplace, earning a grade D.

Gerber Lumber & Hardware: 6.1 TCR = 180% of Building materials supply dealers BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gerber Lumber & Hardware safety composite

Gerber Lumber & Hardware scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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 6.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Gerber Lumber & Hardware: 8.0 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.69× in 2024

Gerber Lumber & Hardware's TCR rose 2.3 from 8.0 in 2022 to 10.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Kidron, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 180% of ind

  • DART 10.3 DART
  • RANK #51/62
  • PHOTO Lindon Lumber/Truss
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lindon Lumber/Truss (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gerber Lumber & Hardware in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gerber Lumber & Hardware averages 6.1 TCR (180% of the Building materials supply dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Gerber Lumber & Hardware TCR series: 2022=8 · 2023=0 · 2024=10.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Gerber Lumber & Hardware falls in its industry

1,643 Building materials supply deal establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 62 Building materials supply deal employers in Ohio.

Gerber Lumber & Hardware (43 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Gerber Lumber & Hardware
Gerber Lumber & Hardware (43 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Gerber Lumber & Hardware has more employees than the Building materials supply dealers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 10.3 10.3 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 8.0 8.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · OH · Kidron

1,643 Building materials supply dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 6 employers in Kidron, 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 Lindon Lumber/Truss 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hbs - Grayslake 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knecht Home Center of Gillette 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lexington Building & Supply Co. Inc. 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE CW Egg Products 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE STgenetics-Marysville 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Clairsville Ohio 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dresden Plant 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gerber Poultry Inc 498 FTE
CITY-NEAR STE Hackney Inc - Kidron, OH 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fayette Janitorial LLC- Gerber Kidron 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gerber Farm Division 47 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - KLAL 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 5673 - Florissant 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Niskayuna 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PAM Specialty of Jacksonville 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE PSI Main 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laudermilch Meats, Inc 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accurate Recycling corp 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Relevar Home Care 43 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.