Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing · Ohio

Korda Mfg.

Wooster, OH · ~74 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Korda Mfg. runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Korda Mfg.: 5.0 TCR = 152% of Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Korda Mfg. safety composite

Korda Mfg. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Korda Mfg.: 2.8 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2018

Korda Mfg.'s TCR rose 4.5 from 2.8 in 2017 to 7.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Wooster, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 152% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #56/90
  • PHOTO CRAIG NEWELL WELDING…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CRAIG NEWELL WELDING, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Korda Mfg. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Korda Mfg. averages 5.0 TCR (152% of the Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Korda Mfg. TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2018=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Korda Mfg. falls in its industry

1,158 Sheet metal work (except stamp establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 90 Sheet metal work (except stamp employers in Ohio.

Korda Mfg. (74 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Korda Mfg.
Korda Mfg. (74 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Korda Mfg. has more employees than the Sheet metal work (except stampings) manu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2018 7.3 3.6 4 0 0
2017 2.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · OH · Wooster

1,158 Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 133 employers in Wooster, 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 CRAIG NEWELL WELDING, INC. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 857 American Construction Metals 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Protolabs - Rapid 104 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Standard Technologies 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE STgenetics-Ohio Heifer Center 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE kILBARGER Construction, Inc. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steubenville Service Building 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lima Service Center 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scaheffler Transmissions LLC 1,907 FTE
CITY-NEAR LuK USA LLC 1,814 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schaeffler Transmission LLC 1,662 FTE
CITY-NEAR College of Wooster 771 FTE
NAT-TCR Tokai Carbon GE - Hickman Facility 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Breadsmith Appleton West 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Age- Inman 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wallingford 111 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Presence McAuley Manor 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #11 (Kingsford, MI) 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #179 (North Branch, MN) 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #8 (Rothschild, WI) 74 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: 2018, 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.