Bolts, metal, manufacturing · Ohio

Nelson Stud Welding - Elyria

Elyria, OH · ~118 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nelson Stud Welding - Elyria runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bolts, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Nelson Stud Welding - Elyria: 7.8 TCR = 236% of Bolts, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelson Stud Welding - Elyria safety composite

Nelson Stud Welding - Elyria scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Nelson Stud Welding - Elyria: 4.4 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2017

Nelson Stud Welding - Elyria's TCR rose 6.7 from 4.4 in 2016 to 11.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332722 · Elyria, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 236% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #33/38
  • PHOTO California Screw Pro…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~118 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: California Screw Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nelson Stud Welding - Elyria in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nelson Stud Welding - Elyria averages 7.8 TCR (236% of the Bolts, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nelson Stud Welding - Elyria TCR series: 2016=4.4 · 2017=11.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Nelson Stud Welding - Elyria falls in its industry

335 Bolts, metal, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #33 safest of 38 Bolts, metal, manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Nelson Stud Welding - Elyria (118 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Nelson Stud Welding - Elyria
Nelson Stud Welding - Elyria (118 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Nelson Stud Welding - Elyria has more employees than the Bolts, metal, manufacturing 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
2017 11.1 7.7 13 0 0
2016 4.4 2.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332722 · OH · Elyria

335 Bolts, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 118 employers in Elyria, 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 California Screw Products 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holbrook Manufacturing 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR LFC Industries 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miller Products Company 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contracting Solutions, LLC 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCI Services, Inc. 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Velvet Ice Cream Co - Utica 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE SFO Ice Cream 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elyria Medical Center 1,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, LLC - Elyria 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ridge Tool 655 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4255 404 FTE
NAT-TCR 815 Pallets, Inc dba CALco - Richmond, IL 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR AUBERGE 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dulles (Vadul) 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Enterprize Management, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of St Charles LLC 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Springfield East LLC 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trig's Everest Metro 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jessicas Brick Oven 118 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: 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.