Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing · Ohio

Hedstrom Plastics LLC

Ashland, OH · ~110 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Hedstrom Plastics LLC runs at 393% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Hedstrom Plastics LLC: 13.0 TCR = 393% of Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hedstrom Plastics LLC safety composite

Hedstrom Plastics LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 4% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

3/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.6

2016→2023

Hedstrom Plastics LLC injury rate improved

Hedstrom Plastics LLC's TCR fell 8.6 from 23.2 in 2016 to 14.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 23.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=23.2 · 2020=7.6 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=14.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Ashland, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.0 · 393% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #266/270
  • PHOTO eccore Internatonal …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: eccore Internatonal - Ozark (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hedstrom Plastics LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hedstrom Plastics LLC averages 13.0 TCR (393% of the Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hedstrom Plastics LLC TCR series: 2016=23.2 · 2020=7.6 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=14.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Hedstrom Plastics LLC falls in its industry

2,838 Tanks, storage, plastics or fi establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #266 safest of 270 Tanks, storage, plastics or fi employers in Ohio.

Hedstrom Plastics LLC (110 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hedstrom Plastics LLC
Hedstrom Plastics LLC (110 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Hedstrom Plastics LLC has more employees than the Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, 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 14.6 9.3 10 1 1
2022 6.6 5.7 8 0 0
2020 7.6 7.6 3 0 0
2016 23.2 20.0 19 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · OH · Ashland

2,838 Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 68 employers in Ashland, 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 eccore Internatonal - Ozark 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elkhart Plastics 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Molded Plastics Industries, LLC 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Joseph 1110 13.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Quanex 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Structural Systems Repair Group 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kelley Steel Erectors, Inc. 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohio Heating & Refrigeration 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ashland University 2,668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Samaritan Medical Center 678 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1448 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1448 368 FTE
NAT-TCR Wood Products Corp Inc 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 765 Armstrong Garden Centers 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR UCI, Inc. 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Transport - 469 469SH 13.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Garvey Corporation 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highland Park Market of Farmington, LLC 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coxsackie Transport Inc. 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hatchery (Sallisaw) 110 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, 2022, 2020, 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.