Copper Foundries (except Die-Casting) · Ohio

Materion - Lorain

Lorain, OH · ~36 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Materion - Lorain runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Copper Foundries (except Die-Casting) workplace, earning a grade C.

Materion - Lorain: 2.8 TCR = 84% of Copper Foundries (except Die-Casting) BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Materion - Lorain safety composite

Materion - Lorain scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−13.7

2016→2024

Materion - Lorain injury rate improved

Materion - Lorain's TCR fell 13.7 from 13.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 13.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.7 · 2017=4.5 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331529 · Lorain, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 84% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/14
  • PHOTO Johnson Brass
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Johnson Brass (0.0 TCR gap)

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Materion - Lorain in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Materion - Lorain averages 2.8 TCR (84% of the Copper Foundries (except Die-Casting) BLS benchmark).

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

Materion - Lorain TCR series: 2016=13.7 · 2017=4.5 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Materion - Lorain falls in its industry

124 Copper Foundries (except Die-C establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 14 Copper Foundries (except Die-C employers in Ohio.

Materion - Lorain (36 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Materion - Lorain
Materion - Lorain (36 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Materion - Lorain has fewer employees than the Copper Foundries (except Die-Casting) median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 4.3 2.2 2 0 0
2017 4.5 2.3 2 0 0
2016 13.7 5.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331529 · OH · Lorain

124 Copper Foundries (except Die-Casting) 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 Johnson Brass 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park Ohio 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR FALL RIVER FOUNDRY 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Cast Technologies 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE STEYER SEEDS LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Biosecurity Building 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE BrennCo Inc 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE EAST CREEK FARM LLC 36 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 Flexco - Downers Grove 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Field Services 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lighthouse Acute Center 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR General Mills / Gardettos 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Herr Foods - 068 Elkridge MD 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sprague Operating Resources - Searsport 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sprague Operating Resources - River Road 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Volkswagen of Gainesville 36 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.