Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing · Ohio

Norwesco - Lancaster

Lancaster, OH · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Norwesco - Lancaster runs at 230% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Norwesco - Lancaster: 7.6 TCR = 230% of Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norwesco - Lancaster safety composite

Norwesco - Lancaster scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

−11.5

2021→2023

Norwesco - Lancaster injury rate improved

Norwesco - Lancaster's TCR fell 11.5 from 17.1 in 2021 to 5.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 17.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=17.1 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Lancaster, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 230% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #241/270
  • PHOTO UPF WI
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UPF WI (0.0 TCR gap)

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Norwesco - Lancaster in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Norwesco - Lancaster averages 7.6 TCR (230% of the Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Norwesco - Lancaster TCR series: 2021=17.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Norwesco - Lancaster falls in its industry

2,838 Tanks, storage, plastics or fi establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #241 safest of 270 Tanks, storage, plastics or fi employers in Ohio.

Norwesco - Lancaster (23 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Norwesco - Lancaster
Norwesco - Lancaster (23 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Norwesco - Lancaster has fewer employees than the Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, 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
2023 5.6 5.6 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 17.1 12.9 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · OH · Lancaster

2,838 Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 96 employers in Lancaster, 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 UPF WI 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Best Formed Plastics 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meese - Ashtabula 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Revere Plastics Systems - Ankeny 7.6 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 Fairfield Medical Center 2,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anchor Hocking Plant 1 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anchor Hocking 688 FTE
CITY-NEAR Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH 329 FTE
NAT-TCR Lower Valley Processing, Inc. 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR IQHC Mankato MN 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Miami Fl (Medley) 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Providence Home Care Waco 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Catherines Market 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE William J Jones & Son INc 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Military Affairs - 148th FW - CES 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE CRM Plant 304 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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