Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · Ohio

Paragon Metal Fabricators

Cincinnati, OH · ~26 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paragon Metal Fabricators runs at 214% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Paragon Metal Fabricators: 7.0 TCR = 214% of Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paragon Metal Fabricators safety composite

Paragon Metal Fabricators scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Paragon Metal Fabricators: 4.6 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Paragon Metal Fabricators's TCR rose 5.0 from 4.6 in 2016 to 9.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Cincinnati, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 214% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #73/90
  • PHOTO Geometrix
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Geometrix (0.0 TCR gap)

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Paragon Metal Fabricators in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paragon Metal Fabricators averages 7.0 TCR (214% of the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Paragon Metal Fabricators TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=10 · 2019=9.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Paragon Metal Fabricators falls in its industry

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #73 safest of 90 Air cowls, sheet metal (except employers in Ohio.

Paragon Metal Fabricators (26 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Paragon Metal Fabricators
Paragon Metal Fabricators (26 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Paragon Metal Fabricators has fewer employees than the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings median and a higher 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
2019 9.6 0.0 3 0 0
2018 10.0 3.3 3 0 0
2017 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2016 4.6 4.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · OH · Cincinnati

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,513 employers in Cincinnati, 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 Geometrix 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blickman Industries 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Metalworking Group - Dixie Highway 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seal Tite 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hog and Maitenance 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE YNOT Farm 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE OA Facility Maintenance Shop 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE SMT INDUSTRIES 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 17,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Operations 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Evendale, OH 7,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain Evendale OH 6,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Bentzel Mechanical Inc 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SpringHill Suites by Marriott Eden Prairie 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0030 0037 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR West Mifflin 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1134 - BELFOR Wallingford CT 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inn at Nye Beach 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE AAH Queen of Peace Home Care 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kerry-Greenville 26 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: 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.