Aluminum ladders manufacturing · Ohio

Hydro - Sidney

Sidney, OH · ~245 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hydro - Sidney runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Aluminum ladders manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Hydro - Sidney: 0.7 TCR = 20% of Aluminum ladders manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hydro - Sidney safety composite

Hydro - Sidney scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

Hydro - Sidney: 0.4 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2019

Hydro - Sidney's TCR rose 1.2 from 0.4 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Sidney, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 20% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #3/80
  • PHOTO Keller Technology Co…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~245 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Keller Technology Corporation - Huntersville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hydro - Sidney in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hydro - Sidney averages 0.7 TCR (20% of the Aluminum ladders manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hydro - Sidney TCR series: 2016=0.4 · 2017=0 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Hydro - Sidney falls in its industry

827 Aluminum ladders manufacturing establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 80 Aluminum ladders manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Hydro - Sidney (245 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hydro - Sidney
Hydro - Sidney (245 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Hydro - Sidney has more employees than the Aluminum ladders manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2019 1.6 0.8 3 1 0
2018 0.8 0.4 1 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · OH · Sidney

827 Aluminum ladders manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 100 employers in Sidney, 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 Keller Technology Corporation - Huntersville 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydro Extrusion Phoenix Fabrication 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodstream Corporation Ellendale 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BWXT NOG-Euclid 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crocs Inc Nile 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meridian Bioscience Inc - Main 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE Red Diamond Plant 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGC Automotive AVO 245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilson Health 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Campus 550 FTE
CITY-NEAR NK Parts Main Campus 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1331 362 FTE
NAT-TCR CVG Cincinnati N Kentucky Airport (ABX) 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR L3 Unidyne Ellsmere 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Heartshare 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Avery Dennison Neenah DC 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Latham Centers, Inc. 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chromalox Inc. - Ogden 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE LAC+USC Medical Center - Hawkins Building 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE Williams Form Engineering 245 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.