Automobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing · Ohio

Lorain County Automotive System Lorain

Lorain, OH · ~105 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lorain County Automotive System Lorain runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Lorain County Automotive System Lorain: 10.8 TCR = 200% of Automobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lorain County Automotive System Lorain safety composite

Lorain County Automotive System Lorain scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−16.7

2016→2021

Lorain County Automotive System Lorain injury rate improved

Lorain County Automotive System Lorain's TCR fell 16.7 from 19.7 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 19.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=19.7 · 2017=9.7 · 2021=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336360 · Lorain, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 200% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #56/58
  • PHOTO Nissen Chemitec Amer…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nissen Chemitec America Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lorain County Automotive System Lorain in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lorain County Automotive System Lorain averages 10.8 TCR (200% of the Automobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lorain County Automotive System Lorain TCR series: 2016=19.7 · 2017=9.7 · 2021=3 · BLS 5.4

Where Lorain County Automotive System Lorain falls in its industry

384 Automobile seat frames, metal, establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

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 58 Automobile seat frames, metal, employers in Ohio.

Lorain County Automotive System Lorain (105 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 245 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 01,0002,0003,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lorain County Automotive System Lorain
Lorain County Automotive System Lorain (105 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 245 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Lorain County Automotive System Lorain has fewer employees than the Automobile seat frames, metal, manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2021 3.0 2.0 3 0 0
2017 9.7 2.4 4 4 0
2016 19.7 6.6 11 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336360 · OH · Lorain

384 Automobile seat frames, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 85 employers in Lorain, 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 Nissen Chemitec America Inc 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industry Products Co. - Anniston 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HP Pelzer Automotive Systems, Inc. 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magna Seating Auburn Hills 10.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Todhunter 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woda Construction Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Platform Cement Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Jackson Kitchen 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Regional Medical Center 1,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Regional Medical Center 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain Family Health Center & Surgery Center 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain FHC Surgery 412 FTE
NAT-TCR Performance Northern California - 1009 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tft #584 Concord Nh 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stratford Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR J. Sharp's Landscaping, Inc. 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Edina ISD #273 Valley View Middle School 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Matsu Fire Department 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE UGL Scranton PA 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ehmke Manufacturing Company, Inc. 105 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: 2021, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.