Paper making machinery manufacturing · Ohio

Kadant Johnson Services LLC

Middletown, OH · ~28 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kadant Johnson Services LLC runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Paper making machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Kadant Johnson Services LLC: 7.1 TCR = 215% of Paper making machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kadant Johnson Services LLC safety composite

Kadant Johnson Services LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.1

2018→2021

Kadant Johnson Services LLC injury rate improved

Kadant Johnson Services LLC's TCR fell 3.1 from 10.6 in 2018 to 7.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=10.6 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=7.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333243 · Middletown, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 215% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Geo M. Martin Co.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Geo M. Martin Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kadant Johnson Services LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kadant Johnson Services LLC averages 7.1 TCR (215% 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 Johnson Services LLC TCR series: 2018=10.6 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Kadant Johnson Services LLC falls in its industry

137 Paper making machinery manufac establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #5 safest of 5 Paper making machinery manufac employers in Ohio.

Kadant Johnson Services LLC (28 employees, TCR 7.1) 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 Johnson Services LLC
Kadant Johnson Services LLC (28 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Kadant Johnson Services LLC has fewer employees than the Paper making machinery manufacturing 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
2021 7.5 3.8 2 0 0
2020 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 6.4 0.0 2 0 0
2018 10.6 10.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333243 · OH · Middletown

137 Paper making machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 125 employers in Middletown, 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 Geo M. Martin Co. 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Progressive Systems, Inc 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vibra-Pro 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WCIS LLC 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE H and M Building 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fine Oak Farm 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Canton Hatchery 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Small's Sand & Gravel, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corp. Middletown Works 2,339 FTE
CITY-NEAR AK Steel - Middletown Works 2,288 FTE
CITY-NEAR 870 - EFC1 Monroe, OH 1,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Medical Center 1,345 FTE
NAT-TCR M-8 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR High Falls Operating LLC 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Metal X Auburn 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Recleim SC LLC 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 149 Austin Gallery 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Findlay Moving & Storage,Inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town of East Haven General Government 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 136 San Francisco Gallery 28 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.