Automobile polishes and cleaners manufacturing · Ohio

Malco Products, Inc.

Barberton, OH · ~136 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Malco Products, Inc. runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Automobile polishes and cleaners manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Malco Products, Inc.: 4.6 TCR = 141% of Automobile polishes and cleaners manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Malco Products, Inc. safety composite

Malco Products, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−0.5

2020→2024

Malco Products, Inc. injury rate improved

Malco Products, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.5 from 3.6 in 2020 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.6 · 2021=9.0 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 141% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #10/15
  • PHOTO Chemical Universe
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~136 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chemical Universe (0.1 TCR gap)

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Malco Products, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Malco Products, Inc. averages 4.6 TCR (141% 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. TCR series: 2020=3.6 · 2021=9 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Malco Products, Inc. falls in its industry

143 Automobile polishes and cleane establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #10 safest of 15 Automobile polishes and cleane employers in Ohio.

Malco Products, Inc. (136 employees, TCR 4.6) 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.
Malco Products, Inc. (136 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Malco Products, Inc. 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
2024 3.1 1.0 3 0 0
2023 2.8 1.9 3 0 0
2021 9.0 3.5 12 1 0
2020 3.6 2.2 3 2 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 Chemical Universe 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR NCH Corporation 8401 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hillyard Factory 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR KIK Georgia 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE A. A. Boos & Sons, Inc. 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Division #10 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Smith & Oby Company 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE NVR Building Products (OHP) 136 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 Dietzler Construction company 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lane Associates 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal Health 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ozark Safety Services, LLC 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE RES Contractors 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bernhardt Furniture Plant 3 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ocean Spray Cranberries 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Floyd Cherokee Medical Center 136 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, 2021, 2020. 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.