Automobile polishes and cleaners manufacturing · Ohio

Malco Products Barberton

Barberton, OH · ~143 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Malco Products Barberton runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Automobile polishes and cleaners manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Malco Products Barberton: 5.0 TCR = 151% of Automobile polishes and cleaners manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Malco Products Barberton safety composite

Malco Products Barberton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

−1.1

2016→2022

Malco Products Barberton injury rate improved

Malco Products Barberton's TCR fell 1.1 from 5.3 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.3 · 2017=5.5 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=5.8 · 2022=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325612 · Barberton, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 151% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #11/15
  • PHOTO Metrex Corporation
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Metrex Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Malco Products Barberton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Malco Products Barberton averages 5.0 TCR (151% of the Automobile polishes and cleaners manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Malco Products Barberton TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2017=5.5 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=5.8 · 2022=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Malco Products Barberton falls in its industry

143 Automobile polishes and cleane establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 15 Automobile polishes and cleane employers in Ohio.

Malco Products Barberton (143 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Malco Products Barberton
Malco Products Barberton (143 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Malco Products Barberton has more employees than the Automobile polishes and cleaners manufac median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2022 4.2 1.7 5 0 0
2019 5.8 3.3 7 0 0
2018 4.3 2.1 6 0 0
2017 5.5 3.6 8 1 0
2016 5.3 4.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325612 · OH · Barberton

143 Automobile polishes and cleaners manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 58 employers in Barberton, 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 Metrex Corporation 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highline Warren Milwaukee 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CAR-FRESHNER Corporation 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BioSystems International, Inc. 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Messer Construction Co. - Corporate Office 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE ESI, Inc. Dayton 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlas Butler Capital Services 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE SFO Vine Street 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barberton Campus 888 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWX Technologies, Inc. Nuclear Operations Group - Barberton 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWX Technologies, LLC 737 FTE
CITY-NEAR S.A. Comunale - Norton 612 FTE
NAT-TCR PSI3G, dba Partions Speacialties Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Longwood Elastomers Inc W1 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gerelco Traffic Controls, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tops #236 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 0802 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100720 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100670 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piney Grove Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 143 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: 2022, 2019, 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.