Sodium bicarbonate manufacturing · Ohio

Old Fort Plant

Old Fort, OH · ~246 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Old Fort Plant runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sodium bicarbonate manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Old Fort Plant: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Sodium bicarbonate manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Old Fort Plant safety composite

Old Fort Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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)
D 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−2.4

2016→2024

Old Fort Plant injury rate improved

Old Fort Plant's TCR fell 2.4 from 3.8 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.8 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Old Fort, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #14/29
  • PHOTO Facility 1
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~246 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Facility 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Old Fort Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Old Fort Plant averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Sodium bicarbonate manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Old Fort Plant TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Old Fort Plant falls in its industry

418 Sodium bicarbonate manufacturi establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 29 Sodium bicarbonate manufacturi employers in Ohio.

Old Fort Plant (246 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Old Fort Plant
Old Fort Plant (246 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Old Fort Plant has more employees than the Sodium bicarbonate manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2024 1.5 1.1 4 0 0
2023 1.1 0.7 3 0 0
2022 0.6 0.3 2 0 0
2021 0.7 0.0 2 0 0
2020 2.5 1.3 6 0 0
2019 2.4 0.5 4 1 0
2018 1.4 0.5 3 0 0
2017 3.1 2.6 6 0 0
2016 3.8 1.0 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · OH · Old Fort

418 Sodium bicarbonate 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 Facility 1 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Centrus Energy - American Centrifuge 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BASF Catalysts LLC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Continental Carbon Company Sunray 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Warehouse-Transportation 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Yachiyo 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE Festo Corporation 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE The SYGMA Network, Inc. 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR M & B Asphalt Co., Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-TCR Russellville Pouring Plant 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Louisburg 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Roseville Hall/Library 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Clermont Store # 112 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE American Phoenix, Inc. - Eau Claire 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Suwanee Distribution Center #1000 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Distribution Dispatch Center 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Las Vegas 246 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, 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.