Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing · Ohio

GOJO Plaza

Akron, OH · ~551 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GOJO Plaza runs at 1% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

GOJO Plaza: 0.0 TCR = 1% of Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GOJO Plaza safety composite

GOJO Plaza scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

GOJO Plaza held a steady TCR band

GOJO Plaza's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 0.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.2 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325611 · Akron, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.0 · 1% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/42
  • PHOTO Stepan Company North…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~551 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stepan Company Northbrook (0.0 TCR gap)

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GOJO Plaza in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GOJO Plaza averages 0.0 TCR (1% of the Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

GOJO Plaza TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0.2 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where GOJO Plaza falls in its industry

240 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 42 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid employers in Ohio.

GOJO Plaza (551 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate GOJO Plaza
GOJO Plaza (551 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3

GOJO Plaza has more employees than the Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) ma median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.2 0.2 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · OH · Akron

240 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 512 employers in Akron, 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 Stepan Company Northbrook 0.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colgate-Palmolive Global Technology Center 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Browns Summit Procter & Gamble 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR GOJO Industries, Inc. - Plaza 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE G&J Pepsi- Columbus 551 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shiseido Americas Distribution Center 551 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koinonia Homes, INC 551 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cleveland Sportservice, Inc. 551 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron 6,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron Children's Hospital 6,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summa Health - Akron City 4,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron General Medical Center 4,176 FTE
NAT-TCR MA-04 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Jacksonville Regency 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Oncor ESB 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 401 Nicollet Mall 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trend Offset Printing 551 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston Terminal 551 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hill Country (HR) 551 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crested Butte Mountain Resort 551 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, 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.