Steel investment foundries · Ohio

Kovatch Castings Inc.

Uniontown, OH · ~197 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kovatch Castings Inc. runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Steel investment foundries workplace, earning a grade D.

Kovatch Castings Inc.: 5.9 TCR = 178% of Steel investment foundries BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kovatch Castings Inc. safety composite

Kovatch Castings Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.9

2016→2024

Kovatch Castings Inc. injury rate improved

Kovatch Castings Inc.'s TCR fell 4.9 from 10.1 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.1 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=7.0 · 2020=7.8 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331512 · Uniontown, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 178% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO PAC Foundries
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 86 inj
  • SIZE ~197 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PAC Foundries (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kovatch Castings Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kovatch Castings Inc. averages 5.9 TCR (178% of the Steel investment foundries BLS benchmark).

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

Kovatch Castings Inc. TCR series: 2016=10.1 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=7 · 2020=7.8 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Kovatch Castings Inc. falls in its industry

89 Steel investment foundries establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

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 8 Steel investment foundries employers in Ohio.

Kovatch Castings Inc. (197 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kovatch Castings Inc.
Kovatch Castings Inc. (197 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Kovatch Castings Inc. has more employees than the Steel investment foundries median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 5.2 4.7 11 0 0
2023 3.3 2.9 7 0 0
2022 2.1 2.1 4 0 0
2021 5.8 5.8 10 0 0
2020 7.8 7.2 13 0 0
2018 7.0 6.5 13 0 0
2017 5.6 3.9 10 0 0
2016 10.1 6.7 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331512 · OH · Uniontown

89 Steel investment foundries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 37 employers in Uniontown, 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 PAC Foundries 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PT- Mississippi Investment Castings 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yamaha Marine Precision Propellers Inc 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mancor Inc 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fresh Products HQ 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premix-Hadlock Composites - North Kingsville 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Autoplas 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE ProVia 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Securitas Electronic Security, Inc. 1,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx Custom Critical, Inc. 681 FTE
CITY-NEAR Green 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health and Wellness Green 297 FTE
NAT-TCR GRE 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR AW of Millington 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dragon Products Springer 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Meeker Equipment Co Inc 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Reed & Reed 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABC Home and Commercial Services of DFW 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grandvue Medical Care Facility 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation HOUSTON-2100 SPACE PARK DRIVE (3537) 197 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.