Automobile polishes and cleaners manufacturing · Ohio

Malco Products, Inc. Akron

Akron, OH · ~61 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Malco Products, Inc. Akron runs at 234% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automobile polishes and cleaners manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Malco Products, Inc. Akron: 7.7 TCR = 234% of Automobile polishes and cleaners manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Malco Products, Inc. Akron safety composite

Malco Products, Inc. Akron scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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 7.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−8.8

2016→2024

Malco Products, Inc. Akron injury rate improved

Malco Products, Inc. Akron's TCR fell 8.8 from 11.0 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.0 · 2017=6.7 · 2018=14.5 · 2019=9.1 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=11.2 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325612 · Akron, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 234% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #14/15
  • PHOTO AQUA CHEMPACS, LLC
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AQUA CHEMPACS, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Malco Products, Inc. Akron in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Malco Products, Inc. Akron averages 7.7 TCR (234% 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, Inc. Akron TCR series: 2016=11 · 2017=6.7 · 2018=14.5 · 2019=9.1 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=11.2 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Malco Products, Inc. Akron falls in its industry

143 Automobile polishes and cleane establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #14 safest of 15 Automobile polishes and cleane employers in Ohio.

Malco Products, Inc. Akron (61 employees, TCR 7.7) 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, Inc. Akron
Malco Products, Inc. Akron (61 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Malco Products, Inc. Akron has fewer 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
2024 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2023 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 6.3 1.3 5 0 0
2021 11.2 4.2 7 1 0
2020 6.5 0.0 1 2 0
2019 9.1 0.0 4 0 0
2018 14.5 6.2 7 0 0
2017 6.7 3.4 4 0 0
2016 11.0 0.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325612 · OH · Akron

143 Automobile polishes and cleaners manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 512 employers in Akron, 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 AQUA CHEMPACS, LLC 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MISCO PRODUCTS CORORATION 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highline Warren Dallas Mfg 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marquis Extraction Technology LLC 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE DHI COOPERATIVE 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utility Technologies International 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northeast Operations Center 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE CIN 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron 6,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron Children's Hospital 6,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summa Health - Akron City 4,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron General Medical Center 4,176 FTE
NAT-TCR Bedford Hills 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Careone at East Brunswick Alf 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR D & S Machine Repair, Inc. 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR One Way Wireless Construction 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Precise Construction Contracting, Inc. 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spiniello Infrastructure West 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lansing Surgery Center 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Hillsborough 61 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.