Starch glues manufacturing · Ohio

Novagard

Cleveland, Ohio, OH · ~139 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Novagard runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Starch glues manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Novagard: 3.6 TCR = 109% of Starch glues manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Novagard safety composite

Novagard scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

−267.0

2020→2022

Novagard injury rate improved

Novagard's TCR fell 267.0 from 269.2 in 2020 to 2.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 269.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=269.2 · 2021=4.9 · 2022=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Cleveland, Ohio, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 109% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #25/38
  • PHOTO Bostik Greenville
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bostik Greenville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Novagard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Novagard averages 3.6 TCR (109% of the Starch glues manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Novagard TCR series: 2020=269.2 · 2021=4.9 · 2022=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Novagard falls in its industry

287 Starch glues manufacturing establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 38 Starch glues manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Novagard (139 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Novagard
Novagard (139 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Novagard has more employees than the Starch glues manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2022 2.3 1.1 4 0 0
2021 4.9 4.2 7 0 0
2020 269.2 269.2 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · OH · Cleveland, Ohio

287 Starch glues manufacturing 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 Bostik Greenville 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR OMG Rockford 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR V&C Manufacturing 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tremco - Mameco 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rittman Inc dba Mull Iron 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE BNG Miracle Pet LLC 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE DFA FLUID - SPRINGFIELD OH 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Snyder'S-Lance, Inc. 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Talan Products, Inc. 74 FTE
NAT-TCR Ayden Court Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Government 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Centerbrook 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SW Hyannis 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Priority Ford 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arrow Cryogenics, Inc. 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Bend - Police Dept 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cumming Packaged 139 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: 2022, 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.