Electrodes, welding, manufacturing · Ohio

Postle industries

Cleveland, OH · ~32 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Postle industries runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Electrodes, welding, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Postle industries: 3.1 TCR = 93% of Electrodes, welding, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Postle industries safety composite

Postle industries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Postle industries: 0.0 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.69× in 2021

Postle industries's TCR rose 5.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333992 · Cleveland, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 93% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #17/22
  • PHOTO J. W. Holdings, Inc
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J. W. Holdings, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Postle industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Postle industries averages 3.1 TCR (93% of the Electrodes, welding, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Postle industries TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=7.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Postle industries falls in its industry

129 Electrodes, welding, manufactu establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 22 Electrodes, welding, manufactu employers in Ohio.

Postle industries (32 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Postle industries
Postle industries (32 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Postle industries has fewer employees than the Electrodes, welding, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 5.2 5.2 3 0 0
2020 5.8 5.8 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 7.4 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333992 · OH · Cleveland

129 Electrodes, welding, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 922 employers in Cleveland, 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 J. W. Holdings, Inc 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Brazing 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commonwealth Tool & Machine Inc 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milestone Industrial Welding Services LLC 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Custom Agri Systems - Upper Sandusky 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tiffin Svc Ctr 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delaware Svc Ctr 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Electric, Inc. 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Main Campus 25,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 20,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Medical Center 10,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - CLEVELAND 3,641 FTE
NAT-TCR US AutoForce Kimberly 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Permian Tank & Manufacturing, Inc. - El Reno 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Csrolina Reserve of Hendersonville 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Rapids 123 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bickford of Davenport 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oneida TN Plant 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Redondo Beach Hotel 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Kinney SLO 32 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.