Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Ohio

Ken-Tool Inc.

Name: Ken-Tool Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Akron, OH · ~51 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Ken-Tool Inc. runs at 232% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade F.

Ken-Tool Inc.: 7.7 TCR = 232% of Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ken-Tool Inc. safety composite

Ken-Tool Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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).

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−0.7

2017→2023

Ken-Tool Inc. injury rate improved

Ken-Tool Inc.'s TCR fell 0.7 from 3.4 in 2017 to 2.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.4 · 2019=12.8 · 2020=10.9 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Akron, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 232% of ind

DART 2.7 DART
RANK #32/41
PHOTO EMI Industries FL
BOOK 5y book
INJ 17 inj
SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EMI Industries FL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Phoenix Forgin

7.8
Superior Forge

7.8
Gerdau Duluth

7.8
This site

7.7
EMI Industries

7.7

What this shows Ken-Tool Inc. averages 7.7 TCR (232% of the Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

Ken-Tool Inc. TCR series: 2017=3.4 · 2019=12.8 · 2020=10.9 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Ken-Tool Inc. falls in its industry

241 Cold forgings made from purcha establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 41 Cold forgings made from purcha employers in Ohio.

Ken-Tool Inc. (51 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Ken-Tool Inc. has fewer employees than the Cold forgings made from purchased iron o median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2023	2.7	2.7	1
2022	8.3	5.5	3
2020	10.9	5.4	4
2019	12.8	9.2	7
2017	3.4	0.0	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · OH · Akron

241 Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 512 employers in Akron, 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	EMI Industries FL	TAMPA, FL	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Phoenix Forging Co., Inc.	CATASAUQUA, PA	7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Superior Forge and Steel - New Castle	NEW CASTLE, PA	7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Gerdau Duluth Grinding Ball	DULUTH, MN	7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Portsmouth Service Center	PORTSMOUTH	51 FTE
STATE-SIZE	National Gas & Oil	HEBRON	51 FTE
STATE-SIZE	922-NiSource-Zanesville OH-Muskingum Op Ctr	ZANESVILLE	51 FTE
STATE-SIZE	GEM Industrial Inc. - Potash PCS	LIMA	51 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron	Akron	6,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Akron Children's Hospital	Akron	6,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Summa Health - Akron City	Akron	4,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Akron General Medical Center	Akron	4,176 FTE
NAT-TCR	Good Samaritan Society - Prescott Village	Prescott, AZ	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Chicago Flameproof and Wood Specialties	Montgomery, IL	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	City of Chicago Dept of Assets, Information and Services - 10000 W. Montrose Dr.#2	Chicago, IL	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	American Tele-Connect Services, Inc.	Warwick, RI	7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Pacifica Spring Valley LLC	Las Vegas, NV	51 FTE
NAT-SIZE	SSI Inc. Fort Smith	Fort Smith, AR	51 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Weitz Company - Phoenix Office	Phoenix, AZ	51 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Madame Tussauds Hollywood	Los Angeles, CA	51 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.