Machine guards, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · Ohio

Midwest Fabrications, LLC

Tallmadge, OH · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest Fabrications, LLC runs at 498% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine guards, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Midwest Fabrications, LLC: 16.4 TCR = 498% of Machine guards, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest Fabrications, LLC safety composite

Midwest Fabrications, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Midwest Fabrications, LLC: 8.8 → 24.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 28.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2023

Midwest Fabrications, LLC's TCR rose 15.5 from 8.8 in 2017 to 24.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 28.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Tallmadge, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.4 · 498% of ind

  • DART 12.1 DART
  • RANK #90/90
  • PHOTO Plenums Plus
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plenums Plus (0.1 TCR gap)

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Midwest Fabrications, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest Fabrications, LLC averages 16.4 TCR (498% of the Machine guards, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Midwest Fabrications, LLC TCR series: 2017=8.8 · 2018=14.5 · 2019=28.5 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=24.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Midwest Fabrications, LLC falls in its industry

1,158 Machine guards, sheet metal (e establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #90 safest of 90 Machine guards, sheet metal (e employers in Ohio.

Midwest Fabrications, LLC (26 employees, TCR 16.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Midwest Fabrications, LLC
Midwest Fabrications, LLC (26 employees, TCR 16.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Midwest Fabrications, LLC has fewer employees than the Machine guards, sheet metal (except stam median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2023 24.3 12.1 4 0 0
2022 6.1 6.1 1 0 0
2019 28.5 0.0 6 0 0
2018 14.5 0.0 4 0 0
2017 8.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · OH · Tallmadge

1,158 Machine guards, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 45 employers in Tallmadge, 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 Plenums Plus 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crystal Distribution Inc. - Fife, WA 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Safe Air Dowco 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Plains 16.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hog and Maitenance 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE YNOT Farm 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE OA Facility Maintenance Shop 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE SMT INDUSTRIES 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summit Racing Ohio 1,069 FTE
CITY-NEAR AutoSales dba Summit Racing Equipment 1,057 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steere 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD Myers LLC 232 FTE
NAT-TCR Yard Masters, Inc. 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Education 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-118-Huntsville ( RK-118 ) 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply-Weimar 16.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hart Buick GMC Inc 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cell Culture Company LLC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Control Devices Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pro Engineering and Manufacturing, Inc. 26 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: 2023, 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.