Motor vehicle paints manufacturing · Ohio

Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Cleveland

Cleveland, OH · ~167 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Cleveland runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Motor vehicle paints manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Cleveland: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Motor vehicle paints manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Cleveland safety composite

Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Cleveland scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Cleveland: 1.3 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.78× in 2024

Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Cleveland's TCR rose 1.6 from 1.3 in 2022 to 2.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Cleveland, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #19/58
  • PHOTO Axalta Coating Syste…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Axalta Coating Systems - Orrville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Cleveland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Cleveland averages 1.6 TCR (48% of the Motor vehicle paints manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Cleveland TCR series: 2022=1.3 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Cleveland falls in its industry

530 Motor vehicle paints manufactu establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 58 Motor vehicle paints manufactu employers in Ohio.

Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Cleveland (167 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Cleveland
Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Cleveland (167 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Cleveland has more employees than the Motor vehicle paints manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 2.8 2.8 5 0 0
2023 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2022 1.3 0.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · OH · Cleveland

530 Motor vehicle paints manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 922 employers in Cleveland, 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 Axalta Coating Systems - Orrville 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR US IL Kankakee Plant 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houston-Lang 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR USA IL Moline Plant 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Decker Construction Company 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Land O'Lakes - Kent, Ohio 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Solon OH 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Envelope 1 Inc. 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Main Campus 25,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 20,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Medical Center 10,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - CLEVELAND 3,641 FTE
NAT-TCR Harold Macquinn Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 4460 - Lexington 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Whirlpool 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Windigo Logistics 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Delta Air Lines - PHL 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Federal Screw Works 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stemmle Plumbing Repair, Inc. 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lemont Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. / FFE Transportation 167 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.