Balloons, rubber, manufacturing · Ohio

Guardian Manufacturing

Name: Guardian Manufacturing Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Willard, OH · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.1
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Guardian Manufacturing runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Balloons, rubber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Guardian Manufacturing: 1.1 TCR = 32% of Balloons, rubber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Guardian Manufacturing safety composite

Guardian Manufacturing scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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).

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

Guardian Manufacturing: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2020

Guardian Manufacturing's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326299 · Willard, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

DART 2.1 DART
RANK #5/47
PHOTO West Pharmacutical S…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Pharmacutical Services, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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HTI Recycling

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Foamcraft, Inc

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What this shows Guardian Manufacturing averages 1.1 TCR (32% of the Balloons, rubber, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Guardian Manufacturing TCR series: 2017=0 · 2020=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Guardian Manufacturing falls in its industry

257 Balloons, rubber, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 47 Balloons, rubber, manufacturin employers in Ohio.

Guardian Manufacturing (39 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Guardian Manufacturing has fewer employees than the Balloons, rubber, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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	2.1	2.1	1	0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326299 · OH · Willard

257 Balloons, rubber, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 20 employers in Willard, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	West Pharmacutical Services, Inc.	KEARNEY, NE	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	HTI Recycling	LOCKPORT, NY	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Flex-Tech San Marcos	SAN MARCOS, TX	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Foamcraft, Inc.	TUPELO, MS	1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	DRW PACKING INC	NORTH FAIRFIELD	39 FTE
STATE-SIZE	OHI Greenhouse LLC	WILMINGTON	39 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bridgewater Dairy LLC	MONTPELIER	39 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rossburg Facility	ROSSBURG	39 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MTD Products, Inc.	Willard	1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MTD Products DBA Stanley Black and Decker- Willard	Willard	1,159 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pepperidge Farm, Inc.	Willard	770 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LSC Communications	Willard	720 FTE
NAT-TCR	Memry Corporation #3	Bethel, CT	1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hunter Pharmacy Services, Inc.	Austin, TX	1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Anchorage Campus	Anchorage, AK	1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Fagron Sterile Services	Wichita, KS	1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Modern Machine & Tool Co., Inc.	Newp, VA	39 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fuller Electric	San Diego, CA	39 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pacheco Construction and Trucking, Inc	Tucumcari, NM	39 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Roofing Contractor	Elgin, IL	39 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, 2017. 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.