Bar, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills · Ohio

Kaiser Aluminum- Newark, OH

Name: Kaiser Aluminum- Newark, OH Workplace Safety Data
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Heath, OH · ~218 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Kaiser Aluminum- Newark, OH runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bar, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills workplace, earning a grade B.

Kaiser Aluminum- Newark, OH: 2.5 TCR = 76% of Bar, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kaiser Aluminum- Newark, OH safety composite

Kaiser Aluminum- Newark, OH scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Kaiser Aluminum- Newark, OH: 2.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2017

Kaiser Aluminum- Newark, OH's TCR rose 1.0 from 2.0 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331318 · Heath, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 76% of ind

DART 1.3 DART
RANK #5/16
PHOTO Getwell
BOOK 2y book
INJ 12 inj
SIZE ~218 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Getwell (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.6
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2.5
Getwell

2.5
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2.5
Western Extrus

2.4

What this shows Kaiser Aluminum- Newark, OH averages 2.5 TCR (76% of the Bar, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills BLS benchmark).

Kaiser Aluminum- Newark, OH TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Kaiser Aluminum- Newark, OH falls in its industry

204 Bar, aluminum, made in integra establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

Grade B

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 16 Bar, aluminum, made in integra employers in Ohio.

Kaiser Aluminum- Newark, OH (218 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Kaiser Aluminum- Newark, OH has more employees than the Bar, aluminum, made in integrated second median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2017	3.0	1.3	7	0	0
2016	2.0	0.8	5	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331318 · OH · Heath

204 Bar, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 46 employers in Heath, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Getwell	MEMPHIS, TN	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Penn Aluminum International LLC - Murphysboro, Il	MURPHYSBORO, IL	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pennex Aluminum Company, LLC. (Leetonia Operations)	LEETONIA, OH	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Western Extrusions Corp	CARROLLTON, TX	2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	General Mills (Cincinnati)	CINCINNATI	218 FTE
STATE-SIZE	UNITED DAIRY FARMERS PLANT AND OFFICE	CINCINNATI	218 FTE
STATE-SIZE	New Horizons Baking Company	NORWALK	218 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Freeport Press, Inc.	NEW PHILADELPHIA	218 FTE
CITY-NEAR	OH009	Heath	542 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Carvana Heath	Heath	360 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1594	Heath	347 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1594	Heath	306 FTE
NAT-TCR	Phyisician Practices	East Stroudsburg, PA	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Berthoud, CO	Berthoud, CO	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tremron - JAXP	Jacksonvile, FL	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	New England Home Therapies, Inc. - 1000	Southborough, MA	2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Saginaw (Misag)	Saginaw, MI	218 FTE
NAT-SIZE	2073-EJ-20730203-MX	Alcoa, TN	218 FTE
NAT-SIZE	BTD Manufacturing Dawsonville	Dawsonville, GA	218 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Republic National Distributing Company 12	Austin, TX	218 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: 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.