Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Nichols Cleveland

Oakwood Vlg, OH · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nichols Cleveland runs at 234% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Nichols Cleveland: 5.2 TCR = 234% of Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nichols Cleveland safety composite

Nichols Cleveland scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−1.0

2020→2021

Nichols Cleveland injury rate improved

Nichols Cleveland's TCR fell 1.0 from 5.7 in 2020 to 4.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.7 · 2021=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424130 · Oakwood Vlg, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.2 · 234% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #20/25
  • PHOTO Imperial Dade Miami
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Imperial Dade Miami (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nichols Cleveland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nichols Cleveland averages 5.2 TCR (234% of the Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Nichols Cleveland TCR series: 2020=5.7 · 2021=4.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Nichols Cleveland falls in its industry

290 Bags, paper and disposable pla establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 25 Bags, paper and disposable pla employers in Ohio.

Nichols Cleveland (27 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Nichols Cleveland
Nichols Cleveland (27 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Nichols Cleveland has fewer employees than the Bags, paper and disposable plastics, mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 4.6 0.0 1 0 0
2020 5.7 5.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424130 · OH · Oakwood Vlg

290 Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 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 Imperial Dade Miami 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5843 Baltimore MD 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joshen Paper & Packaging of Indiana 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Massco - KC 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jeff Creque Farms Inc 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE White Pond Gardens Inc 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wen Mar Farms, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Croton Pullet 2 27 FTE
NAT-TCR Drillers F &B LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Location 3 Lemon Grove 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Choctaw Transportation Company 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lafayette Hotel Associates, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE SCI East Peoria, LLC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Perko's Cafe and Grill #102 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE McMillan Electric 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE All Star Energy Inc/ Home Comfort 27 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. 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.