Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing · Ohio

KDC Columbus

New Albany, OH · ~900 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KDC Columbus runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

KDC Columbus: 0.6 TCR = 19% of Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KDC Columbus safety composite

KDC Columbus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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%).

KDC Columbus held a steady TCR band

KDC Columbus's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.6 in 2021 to 0.7 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.6 · 2022=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325611 · New Albany, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 19% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #7/42
  • PHOTO Procter & Gamble Man…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~900 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Procter & Gamble Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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KDC Columbus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KDC Columbus averages 0.6 TCR (19% of the Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

KDC Columbus TCR series: 2021=0.6 · 2022=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where KDC Columbus falls in its industry

240 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 42 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid employers in Ohio.

KDC Columbus (900 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate KDC Columbus
KDC Columbus (900 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3

KDC Columbus has more employees than the Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) ma median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2022 0.7 0.1 5 0 0
2021 0.6 0.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · OH · New Albany

240 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 76 employers in New Albany, 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 Procter & Gamble Manufacturing 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avadim Health 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BHI Bissell Homecare Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Procter & Gamble Lima Plant 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Life Line Screening 901 FTE
STATE-SIZE CINCINNATI (OHCGE) 902 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Joseph Health Center 897 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 7012 904 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8807710-ABERCROMBIE & FITCH 1,170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Project Cardinal (M&T) 1,150 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC1 & DC2 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - CMH7 953 FTE
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0231 Mountaire Farms - Lumber Bridge 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Contemporary Concepts, Inc. Architectural Mill 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Par-Way Manufacturing 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR IL - Corporate 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 565481-Milwaukee Wi P&Dc 900 FTE
NAT-SIZE Santa Clara Valley Water District 900 FTE
NAT-SIZE OIS-Deer Park 900 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kolbe & Kolbe Millwork Co., Inc. 900 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: 2022, 2021. 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.