Paper making machinery manufacturing · Ohio

Kadant Black Clawson LLC

Lebanon, OH · ~161 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kadant Black Clawson LLC runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Paper making machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Kadant Black Clawson LLC: 2.3 TCR = 68% of Paper making machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kadant Black Clawson LLC safety composite

Kadant Black Clawson LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

Kadant Black Clawson LLC: 0.7 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2024

Kadant Black Clawson LLC's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.7 in 2018 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333243 · Lebanon, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 68% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Ellison Educational …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ellison Educational Equipment, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kadant Black Clawson LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kadant Black Clawson LLC averages 2.3 TCR (68% of the Paper making machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kadant Black Clawson LLC TCR series: 2018=0.7 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Kadant Black Clawson LLC falls in its industry

137 Paper making machinery manufac establishments

Safer than 71% 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 #3 safest of 5 Paper making machinery manufac employers in Ohio.

Kadant Black Clawson LLC (161 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kadant Black Clawson LLC
Kadant Black Clawson LLC (161 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Kadant Black Clawson LLC has more employees than the Paper making machinery manufacturing median and a lower 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
2024 2.5 2.5 4 0 0
2023 1.9 1.9 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.8 1.4 4 0 0
2020 4.1 2.0 4 2 0
2019 3.8 1.9 5 1 0
2018 0.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333243 · OH · Lebanon

137 Paper making machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 69 employers in Lebanon, 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 Ellison Educational Equipment, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fosber America, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Era Converting Machinery, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Malnove Incorporated of Florida 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Transmission Op Ctr New Albany 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Matrix5 Site Development 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trans Ash, Inc. 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apollo Home 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADVICS Ohio Manufacturing, Inc. 979 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mane Inc. Lebanon Production 588 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ralph J. Stolle Countryside YMCA 561 FTE
CITY-NEAR Miami Valley Gaming and Racing, LLC 427 FTE
NAT-TCR Blaylock Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pike Florida Statewide Operations 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR A.N. Webber, Inc. - Kankakee 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Lansing 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Springs at Tanasbourne 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Masonic Center for Health and Rehab 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chief Agri Industrial 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bay City SC 161 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.