Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing · Ohio

Michelman - Shell Rd Plant

Cincinnati, OH · ~101 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Michelman - Shell Rd Plant runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Michelman - Shell Rd Plant: 4.3 TCR = 129% of Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Michelman - Shell Rd Plant safety composite

Michelman - Shell Rd Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Michelman - Shell Rd Plant: 2.5 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.36× in 2020

Michelman - Shell Rd Plant's TCR rose 6.8 from 2.5 in 2016 to 9.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325998 · Cincinnati, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 129% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #36/45
  • PHOTO AquaPhoenix Scientif…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AquaPhoenix Scientific -HQ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Michelman - Shell Rd Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Michelman - Shell Rd Plant averages 4.3 TCR (129% of the Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Michelman - Shell Rd Plant TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=9.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Michelman - Shell Rd Plant falls in its industry

485 Industrial product finishes an establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 45 Industrial product finishes an employers in Ohio.

Michelman - Shell Rd Plant (101 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Michelman - Shell Rd Plant
Michelman - Shell Rd Plant (101 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Michelman - Shell Rd Plant has more employees than the Industrial product finishes and coatings median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2020 9.3 5.8 8 0 0
2019 4.3 1.7 5 0 0
2018 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2016 2.5 1.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325998 · OH · Cincinnati

485 Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,513 employers in Cincinnati, 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 AquaPhoenix Scientific -HQ 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSS Rochelle IL 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR QualiChem Plant 1 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BHS Specialty Chemical Products - Nampa 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE RC Hemm Glass Shops Inc 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reddy Electric Co. - All 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hopkins Printing 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE APS Garfield 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 17,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Operations 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Evendale, OH 7,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain Evendale OH 6,400 FTE
NAT-TCR TGFS 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Faribault - Buckham Center 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vidalia 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 11 - 12 Industrial Rd 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Golden Triangle Construction, Inc. 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Ship Repair & Fabrication 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chef One Corporation 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Element St. Paul 101 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.