Welding wire or rods (i.e., coated, cored) manufacturing · Ohio

KC Operations

Troy, OH · ~28 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KC Operations runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Welding wire or rods (i.e., coated, cored) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

KC Operations: 1.0 TCR = 31% of Welding wire or rods (i.e., coated, cored) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KC Operations safety composite

KC Operations scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

KC Operations: 0.0 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 6× in 2024

KC Operations's TCR rose 6.2 from 0.0 in 2019 to 6.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333992 · Troy, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 31% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #5/22
  • PHOTO EBZ Systec Inc.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EBZ Systec Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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KC Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KC Operations averages 1.0 TCR (31% of the Welding wire or rods (i.e., coated, cored) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

KC Operations TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 3.3

Where KC Operations falls in its industry

129 Welding wire or rods (i.e., co establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

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 22 Welding wire or rods (i.e., co employers in Ohio.

KC Operations (28 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate KC Operations
KC Operations (28 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8

KC Operations has fewer employees than the Welding wire or rods (i.e., coated, core median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 6.2 6.2 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333992 · OH · Troy

129 Welding wire or rods (i.e., coated, cored) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 89 employers in Troy, 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 EBZ Systec Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TRUMPF Inc - TUSD 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Postle Industries Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miller Welding Automation 1.1 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 Troy Plant 1,433 FTE
CITY-NEAR Upper Valley Medical Center 1,046 FTE
CITY-NEAR F and P America, Troy 1,005 FTE
CITY-NEAR Troy, OH 875 FTE
NAT-TCR Newport Industries 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0f49 - Rochester Fas 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 45 - Winston-Salem 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR AHB Tool & Machinery LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vanguard Adairsville 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeview Precision Machining, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cbgain-Dpp-Cabana Beach Gainesville 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Standback GC 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.