Freezing equipment, industrial and commercial-type, manufacturing · Ohio

Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division

Wooster, OH · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Freezing equipment, industrial and commercial-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division: 1.3 TCR = 38% of Freezing equipment, industrial and commercial-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division safety composite

Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division scores strongest on dart rate (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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division held a steady TCR band

Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=5.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333415 · Wooster, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 38% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/22
  • PHOTO Commercial HVAC Amer…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division averages 1.3 TCR (38% of the Freezing equipment, industrial and commercial-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division TCR series: 2020=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=5 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division falls in its industry

461 Freezing equipment, industrial establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

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 22 Freezing equipment, industrial employers in Ohio.

Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division (20 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 164 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division
Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division (20 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 164 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division has fewer employees than the Freezing equipment, industrial and comme median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 5.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333415 · OH · Wooster

461 Freezing equipment, industrial and commercial-type, 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 Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cooling Plant 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johnson Controls San Antonio Chillers 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR High Point Plant 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nature Pure Farm 1 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foundry Sand Service LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carroll County Energy LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAES : NTE Middletown 20 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 RT Western, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vecino Construction LLC 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 00702 Jim Bridger Plant 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Waltham, Ma Office 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE John D Osborne Trucking Inc 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Runnings of Sturgis 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main 20 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.