Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing · Ohio

National Sign Systems, Inc.

Hilliard, OH · ~98 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

National Sign Systems, Inc. runs at 349% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

National Sign Systems, Inc.: 11.5 TCR = 349% of Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

National Sign Systems, Inc. safety composite

National Sign Systems, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

National Sign Systems, Inc.: 7.5 → 15.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 15.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.37× in 2021

National Sign Systems, Inc.'s TCR rose 8.0 from 7.5 in 2016 to 15.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339950 · Hilliard, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.5 · 349% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #22/22
  • PHOTO Alamo Outdoor Signs …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alamo Outdoor Signs LTD (0.1 TCR gap)

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National Sign Systems, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows National Sign Systems, Inc. averages 11.5 TCR (349% of the Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

National Sign Systems, Inc. TCR series: 2016=7.5 · 2021=15.5 · BLS 3.3

Where National Sign Systems, Inc. falls in its industry

405 Signs and signboards (except p establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 22 Signs and signboards (except p employers in Ohio.

National Sign Systems, Inc. (98 employees, TCR 11.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate National Sign Systems, Inc.
National Sign Systems, Inc. (98 employees, TCR 11.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5

National Sign Systems, Inc. has more employees than the Signs and signboards (except paper, pape median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2021 15.5 4.2 11 0 0
2016 7.5 3.8 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339950 · OH · Hilliard

405 Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 90 employers in Hilliard, 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 Alamo Outdoor Signs LTD 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cummings DPC 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redmont Sign LLC DBA Stewart Signs 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR YESCO LLC - Reno, NV Establishment 12.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 70K 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Messer Construction Co. - Dayton Region 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE HQ 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Messer Construction - Dayton, OH 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR The MacIntosh Company 637 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHHILAOH 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSC Hilliard 357 FTE
CITY-NEAR OH0112V3 290 FTE
NAT-TCR Building 1 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 245036-Nbd-North Dartmouth Br 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of Wilbraham 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Aluminum Precision Products Susan 11.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pacific Coast Shredding 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE 44131c - Harahan Dc 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Chapman-Randall Dining Commons 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Cedarbrook-Allentown 98 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: 2021, 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.