Food research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) · Ohio

Nestle Development Center

Marysville, OH · ~270 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nestle Development Center runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) workplace, earning a grade D.

Nestle Development Center: 1.0 TCR = 192% of Food research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nestle Development Center safety composite

Nestle Development Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Nestle Development Center: 0.7 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2017

Nestle Development Center's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.7 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541712 · Marysville, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 1.0 · 192% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #21/24
  • PHOTO R&D
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~270 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R&D (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nestle Development Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nestle Development Center averages 1.0 TCR (192% of the Food research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) BLS benchmark).

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

Nestle Development Center TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=1.2 · BLS 0.5

Where Nestle Development Center falls in its industry

319 Food research and development establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 24 Food research and development employers in Ohio.

Nestle Development Center (270 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Nestle Development Center
Nestle Development Center (270 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8

Nestle Development Center has more employees than the Food research and development laboratori median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.8. 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 1.2 0.4 3 0 0
2016 0.7 0.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541712 · OH · Marysville

319 Food research and development laboratories or services (except biotechnology research and development) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 69 employers in Marysville, 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 R&D 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Space Dynamics Laboratory North Logan 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frontage Laboratories 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR OC Science & Technology Center 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spartan Chemical Company 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE Champion Windows 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enerfab Process Solutions & Fabricated Products 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Tool Company 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marysville Auto Plant 5,559 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scioto Services, L.L.C. 1,771 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Scotts Company - Marysville Corp 703 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Health 701 FTE
NAT-TCR 48- Ladd (Cattani) 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Beaumont District Office EN4T 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Glasgow 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Garrity Tool Company, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jarden Zinc Products 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hagerstown (Mdhag) 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western trailers 270 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mary Wade 270 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.