Full service restaurants · Ohio

Max & Erma's Middleburg

Middleburg Heights, OH · ~49 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Max & Erma's Middleburg runs at 230% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Full service restaurants workplace, earning a grade F.

Max & Erma's Middleburg: 6.9 TCR = 230% of Full service restaurants BLS 3.0 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Max & Erma's Middleburg safety composite

Max & Erma's Middleburg scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Max & Erma's Middleburg: 3.8 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2019

Max & Erma's Middleburg's TCR rose 4.2 from 3.8 in 2016 to 8.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722511 · Middleburg Heights, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 230% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #31/46
  • PHOTO Pacific Table
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Table (0.0 TCR gap)

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Max & Erma's Middleburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Max & Erma's Middleburg averages 6.9 TCR (230% of the Full service restaurants BLS benchmark).

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

Max & Erma's Middleburg TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2017=4 · 2018=11.7 · 2019=8 · BLS 3.0

Where Max & Erma's Middleburg falls in its industry

1,091 Full service restaurants establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 46 Full service restaurants employers in Ohio.

Max & Erma's Middleburg (49 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Max & Erma's Middleburg
Max & Erma's Middleburg (49 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Max & Erma's Middleburg has more employees than the Full service restaurants median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2019 8.0 8.0 1 1 0
2018 11.7 3.9 3 0 0
2017 4.0 0.0 0 1 0
2016 3.8 3.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722511 · OH · Middleburg Heights

1,091 Full service restaurants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 75 employers in Middleburg Heights, 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 Pacific Table 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Max & Erma's Sawmill 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redlands 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eataly Flatiron 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Layer Site 6 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Ohio Transmission SC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Standard Contracting & Engineering, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stanley Miller Construction Co Main 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southwest General 2,617 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHMID - MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS 1,545 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS (OHMID) 1,445 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stevens Engineers & Constructors 581 FTE
NAT-TCR 707 - Cabazon 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Ridge Mountain EMC 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Channel Chemical Corporation 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #16 (Escanaba, MI) 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Max & Erma's Parkway West 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lifo, LLC 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE LRCP/Great Falls, LLC 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE F -S Prestress LLC 49 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: 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.