Toggle bolts, metal, manufacturing · Ohio

Nelson Stud Welding

Elyria, OH · ~125 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nelson Stud Welding runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Toggle bolts, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Nelson Stud Welding: 5.9 TCR = 179% of Toggle bolts, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelson Stud Welding safety composite

Nelson Stud Welding scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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: 3.6 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2021

Nelson Stud Welding's TCR rose 5.4 from 3.6 in 2019 to 9.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 179% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #28/38
  • PHOTO K-T Bolt Manufacturi…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: K-T Bolt Manufacturing LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nelson Stud Welding in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nelson Stud Welding averages 5.9 TCR (179% of the Toggle 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 TCR series: 2019=3.6 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=9 · BLS 3.3

Where Nelson Stud Welding falls in its industry

335 Toggle bolts, metal, manufactu establishments

Safer than 21% 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 #28 safest of 38 Toggle bolts, metal, manufactu employers in Ohio.

Nelson Stud Welding (125 employees, TCR 5.9) 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
Nelson Stud Welding (125 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Nelson Stud Welding has more employees than the Toggle 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
2021 9.0 5.0 7 2 0
2020 5.2 3.5 6 0 0
2019 3.6 2.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332722 · OH · Elyria

335 Toggle 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 K-T Bolt Manufacturing LLC 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Br71 Gallatin 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashley Ward 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haydon Bolts, Inc. 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE AKRON - WILBETH SHOP 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlas Steel 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Tele-Communications, Inc. 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vertiv Corporation - Lorain 125 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 Morsco Supply Co. #1116/1132/1134 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4818-WAVA 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ARH Southern WV Clinic 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hwy 90 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ll Flex LLC 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southwark Metal - Idaho Division 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Suny-Student Union 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alexandria NE LLC 125 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, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.