Grommets, rubber, manufacturing · Ohio

HEXPOL Barberton

Barberton, OH · ~61 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HEXPOL Barberton runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grommets, rubber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

HEXPOL Barberton: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Grommets, rubber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HEXPOL Barberton safety composite

HEXPOL Barberton scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2021→2024

HEXPOL Barberton injury rate improved

HEXPOL Barberton's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.5 in 2021 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.5 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/47
  • PHOTO Stowe Woodward LLC L…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stowe Woodward LLC LA (Andritz) (0.0 TCR gap)

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HEXPOL Barberton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HEXPOL Barberton averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Grommets, rubber, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HEXPOL Barberton TCR series: 2021=2.5 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where HEXPOL Barberton falls in its industry

257 Grommets, rubber, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 47 Grommets, rubber, manufacturin employers in Ohio.

HEXPOL Barberton (61 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate HEXPOL Barberton
HEXPOL Barberton (61 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6

HEXPOL Barberton has fewer employees than the Grommets, 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
2024 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2023 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2022 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2021 2.5 1.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326299 · OH · Barberton

257 Grommets, rubber, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 58 employers in Barberton, 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 Stowe Woodward LLC LA (Andritz) 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Datwyler Pharma Packaging USA Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Tire Recycling - Godfrey, IL 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WI Roller - ARCo 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE DHI COOPERATIVE 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utility Technologies International 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northeast Operations Center 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE CIN 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barberton Campus 888 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWX Technologies, Inc. Nuclear Operations Group - Barberton 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWX Technologies, LLC 737 FTE
CITY-NEAR S.A. Comunale - Norton 612 FTE
NAT-TCR Gallatin Manor 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Manor 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR EMI 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-711 THOMLIN MILL ROAD 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Buerkle Imports Company Inc 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mission Point of Beverly Hills 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Residence at Orchard Grove 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE SP Richards Co. 61 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, 2021. 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.