Plating metals and metal products for the trade · Ohio

Lake City Plating - Jefferson

Jefferson, OH · ~66 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lake City Plating - Jefferson runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade F.

Lake City Plating - Jefferson: 8.3 TCR = 251% of Plating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake City Plating - Jefferson safety composite

Lake City Plating - Jefferson scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Lake City Plating - Jefferson: 2.2 → 14.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2024

Lake City Plating - Jefferson's TCR rose 12.1 from 2.2 in 2023 to 14.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Jefferson, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 251% of ind

  • DART 10.4 DART
  • RANK #57/62
  • PHOTO Polishing Shop
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Polishing Shop (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lake City Plating - Jefferson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake City Plating - Jefferson averages 8.3 TCR (251% of the Plating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Lake City Plating - Jefferson TCR series: 2023=2.2 · 2024=14.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Lake City Plating - Jefferson falls in its industry

585 Plating metals and metal produ establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 62 Plating metals and metal produ employers in Ohio.

Lake City Plating - Jefferson (66 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Lake City Plating - Jefferson
Lake City Plating - Jefferson (66 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Lake City Plating - Jefferson has more employees than the Plating metals and metal products for th median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 14.4 10.4 11 0 0
2023 2.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · OH · Jefferson

585 Plating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 20 employers in Jefferson, 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 Polishing Shop 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jenco Plating Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dewayne's Quality Metal Coatings 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arrow Cryogenics, Inc. 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Poultry Service Associates Inc. 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bowling Green 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE MGQ, Inc. 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE ENGIE North America - OSU 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - CMH5 613 FTE
CITY-NEAR Worthington Cylinders Jefferson 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR Presrite-Jefferson Division 179 FTE
CITY-NEAR WC Jefferson 163 FTE
NAT-TCR 1230 Clarence 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Glacier Landscape Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Summertown Metals LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Nybru - Brush Avenue 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Minkoff Company, Inc. 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE George P Johnson Torrance 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Principal Builders, Inc. 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Petro RI - Warwick 66 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. 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.