Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Ohio

Hirschvogel Incorporated

Columbus, OH · ~313 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hirschvogel Incorporated runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade D.

Hirschvogel Incorporated: 5.5 TCR = 165% of Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hirschvogel Incorporated safety composite

Hirschvogel Incorporated scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Hirschvogel Incorporated: 5.2 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2023

Hirschvogel Incorporated's TCR rose 0.6 from 5.2 in 2019 to 5.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Columbus, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 165% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #26/41
  • PHOTO Forge
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 83 inj
  • SIZE ~313 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Forge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hirschvogel Incorporated in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hirschvogel Incorporated averages 5.5 TCR (165% of the Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Hirschvogel Incorporated TCR series: 2019=5.2 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=6 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Hirschvogel Incorporated falls in its industry

241 Forgings made from purchased i establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 41 Forgings made from purchased i employers in Ohio.

Hirschvogel Incorporated (313 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hirschvogel Incorporated
Hirschvogel Incorporated (313 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Hirschvogel Incorporated has more employees than the Forgings made from purchased iron or ste median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 5.8 4.2 18 0 0
2022 4.7 2.7 14 0 0
2021 6.0 4.9 16 0 0
2020 5.7 3.8 15 0 0
2019 5.2 4.4 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · OH · Columbus

241 Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, 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 Forge 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AAM Metal Forming Chicago Facility 1 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Drop Forge 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SIFCO Forge 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Health Care Logistics - Galloway 313 FTE
STATE-SIZE Health Care Logistics - Circleville 313 FTE
STATE-SIZE Health Care Logistics - Grove City 313 FTE
STATE-SIZE Health Care Logistics - Urbancrest 313 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR Facilities Mechanical, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Town of Thomaston 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Component Manufacturing Company - Plant 2 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 214 Lci 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nucor Steel Seattle, Inc. 313 FTE
NAT-SIZE Triangle Services - Miami (MIA) Aviation Svcs 313 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yankee Candle Distribution 313 FTE
NAT-SIZE UPMC Community Provider Services Inc 313 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.