Surface active agents manufacturing · Ohio

Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio

Bowling Green, OH · ~69 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Surface active agents manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio: 4.2 TCR = 128% of Surface active agents manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio safety composite

Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

−1.3

2016→2020

Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio injury rate improved

Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio's TCR fell 1.3 from 3.1 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.1 · 2017=6.7 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325613 · Bowling Green, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 128% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Dystar Dalton
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dystar Dalton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio averages 4.2 TCR (128% of the Surface active agents manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=6.7 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio falls in its industry

66 Surface active agents manufact establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Surface active agents manufact employers in Ohio.

Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio (69 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio
Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio (69 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., Bowling Green, Ohio has more employees than the Surface active agents manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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
2020 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2019 5.4 5.4 1 2 0
2017 6.7 3.3 4 0 0
2016 3.1 0.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325613 · OH · Bowling Green

66 Surface active agents manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 98 employers in Bowling Green, 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 Dystar Dalton 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lubrizol Advanced Materials 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Applied Textiles, Inc. - North Carolina Location 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colonial Chemical, Inc 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Main Office 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cambridge Ohio 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canton South Svc Ctr 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Shelly Company - Northeast Division - HMA 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vehtek Systems Inc 856 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wood County Hospital 760 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1913 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR TH Plastics - Bowling Green 333 FTE
NAT-TCR Meijer 152 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR On Time Logistics, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Symmetry Medical Manufacturing, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR National Distribution Centers LLC-800 Middle Tennessee Blvd 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Legacy on College Hill 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of St. Paul City Attorney's Office 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE SLPFL 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stratford Rehab Center 69 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: 2020, 2019, 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.