Warehousing and storage, general merchandise · Ohio

Nichols B

Wooster, OH · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nichols B runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Warehousing and storage, general merchandise workplace, earning a grade C.

Nichols B: 5.0 TCR = 86% of Warehousing and storage, general merchandise BLS 5.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nichols B safety composite

Nichols B scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.2

2016→2021

Nichols B injury rate improved

Nichols B's TCR fell 3.2 from 5.7 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.7 · 2018=6.8 · 2021=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Wooster, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 86% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #434/556
  • PHOTO Amazon.com Services …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amazon.com Services LLC - CAE1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nichols B in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nichols B averages 5.0 TCR (86% of the Warehousing and storage, general merchandise BLS benchmark).

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

Nichols B TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2018=6.8 · 2021=2.5 · BLS 5.8

Where Nichols B falls in its industry

9,477 Warehousing and storage, gener establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #434 safest of 556 Warehousing and storage, gener employers in Ohio.

Nichols B (24 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Nichols B
Nichols B (24 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Nichols B has fewer employees than the Warehousing and storage, general merchan 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 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 6.8 6.8 1 0 0
2016 5.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · OH · Wooster

9,477 Warehousing and storage, general merchandise employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 133 employers in Wooster, 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 Amazon.com Services LLC - CAE1 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx Supply Chain Unilever Jacksonville 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Global Industrial Co. - Pleasant Prairie, WI 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Renfro - Ft. Payne DC 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE LCN 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAES: Fremont 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMP Fremont Energy Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bucyrus Service Center 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scaheffler Transmissions LLC 1,907 FTE
CITY-NEAR LuK USA LLC 1,814 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schaeffler Transmission LLC 1,662 FTE
CITY-NEAR College of Wooster 771 FTE
NAT-TCR Salish Ponds Elementary 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Corral 2464 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR West Florida Hospital 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Advantage Logistics Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brown Deer 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn Merrillville 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE STAR/NPW-16 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transteck Inc. - Easton (Aurora) 24 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, 2018, 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.