Combs, metal, manufacturing · Ohio

Ohio Metals

Wooster, OH · ~133 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ohio Metals runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Combs, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Ohio Metals: 3.7 TCR = 113% of Combs, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ohio Metals safety composite

Ohio Metals scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ohio Metals: 0.8 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Ohio Metals's TCR rose 3.0 from 0.8 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Wooster, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 113% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #35/80
  • PHOTO Advance Industries G…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~133 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advance Industries Group, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ohio Metals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ohio Metals averages 3.7 TCR (113% of the Combs, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ohio Metals TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=3 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ohio Metals falls in its industry

827 Combs, metal, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 80 Combs, metal, manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Ohio Metals (133 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Ohio Metals
Ohio Metals (133 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Ohio Metals has more employees than the Combs, metal, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 3.8 0.0 4 0 0
2020 6.9 1.0 7 0 0
2019 3.4 1.7 4 0 0
2018 4.4 1.8 5 0 0
2017 3.0 1.0 3 0 0
2016 0.8 0.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · OH · Wooster

827 Combs, metal, manufacturing 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 Advance Industries Group, LLC. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industrial Magnetics, Inc 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ASC Engineered Solutions - EPS 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WET Design 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Petta Enterprises Cambridge 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Canton 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Foam Technologies Beach City 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Abbott Electric 133 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 Tri-State Enterprises Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR TS 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MHC 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR C. L. Benton & Sons, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Philadelphia Historic District 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westward Look A Wyndham Grand Resort 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Metal Finishing Monroe 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Refreshment Services Pepsi UIN/MAC 133 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.