Welding equipment manufacturing · Ohio

Nelson Stud Welding - Westlake

Westlake, OH · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nelson Stud Welding - Westlake runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Welding equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Nelson Stud Welding - Westlake: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Welding equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelson Stud Welding - Westlake safety composite

Nelson Stud Welding - Westlake scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Nelson Stud Welding - Westlake held a steady TCR band

Nelson Stud Welding - Westlake's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.0 TCR.

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333992 · Westlake, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/22
  • PHOTO ESAB Denton
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ESAB Denton (0.1 TCR gap)

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Nelson Stud Welding - Westlake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nelson Stud Welding - Westlake averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Welding equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nelson Stud Welding - Westlake TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Nelson Stud Welding - Westlake falls in its industry

129 Welding equipment manufacturin establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 22 Welding equipment manufacturin employers in Ohio.

Nelson Stud Welding - Westlake (23 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0100200300400 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Nelson Stud Welding - Westlake
Nelson Stud Welding - Westlake (23 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Nelson Stud Welding - Westlake has fewer employees than the Welding equipment manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333992 · OH · Westlake

129 Welding equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 95 employers in Westlake, 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 ESAB Denton 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR T. J. Snow Co. 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincoln Electric Automation Fort Collins 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Melton Machine & Control Company 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE MID EAST PRODUCTION LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schlessman Seed Co 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake County Nursery 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE LCN Holdings Inc dba Lake County Nursery 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. John Medical Center 1,158 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Erie Electric, Inc. 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Equity Administrative Services, Inc. - Westlake Office 333 FTE
CITY-NEAR TruWest Company 307 FTE
NAT-TCR AZ-01 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CT-02 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NJ-05 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TX-01 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tishler Industries Incorporated 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE TPC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0614 - Yuba City, Ca 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0533 - Yakima, Wa 23 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.

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