Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing · Ohio

PalletSource, Inc.

Norwalk, OH · ~62 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PalletSource, Inc. runs at 583% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

PalletSource, Inc.: 19.2 TCR = 583% of Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PalletSource, Inc. safety composite

PalletSource, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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 19.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−10.0

2022→2024

PalletSource, Inc. injury rate improved

PalletSource, Inc.'s TCR fell 10.0 from 23.1 in 2022 to 13.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 23.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=23.1 · 2023=21.5 · 2024=13.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Norwalk, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.2 · 583% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #77/79
  • PHOTO Propak - Oklahoma Ci…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Propak - Oklahoma City, OK Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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PalletSource, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PalletSource, Inc. averages 19.2 TCR (583% of the Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

PalletSource, Inc. TCR series: 2022=23.1 · 2023=21.5 · 2024=13.1 · BLS 3.3

Where PalletSource, Inc. falls in its industry

952 Pallet containers, wood or woo establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #77 safest of 79 Pallet containers, wood or woo employers in Ohio.

PalletSource, Inc. (62 employees, TCR 19.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate PalletSource, Inc.
PalletSource, Inc. (62 employees, TCR 19.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

PalletSource, Inc. has more employees than the Pallet containers, wood or wood and meta median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 13.1 6.5 6 0 0
2023 21.5 6.2 14 0 0
2022 23.1 7.7 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · OH · Norwalk

952 Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 60 employers in Norwalk, 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 Propak - Oklahoma City, OK Plant 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Associated Marketing Systems, Inc. 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Propak - Springfield, MO 19.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 2 19.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Croton 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colerain Operations Center 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus NE Svc Ctr 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE 916-NiSource-Mansfield OH-Heartland Op Ctr 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fisher Titus Medical Center 1,024 FTE
CITY-NEAR R+L Carriers - NOR 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1986 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR Borgers 337 FTE
NAT-TCR Pueblo Truss Co., Inc. 19.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MidAmerica Bedding, Inc 19.2 TCR
NAT-TCR DHS-Glenwood Resource Center 19.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Point Senior Living 19.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Weld-Rite Services Inc. 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE In2gro Technologies LLC 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milestone Greensboro GP LLC 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lapeyre Stair - Harahan 62 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.

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

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