Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing · Ohio

Preferred Compounding - Barberton

Name: Preferred Compounding - Barberton Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Barberton, OH · ~111 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Preferred Compounding - Barberton runs at 222% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Preferred Compounding - Barberton: 7.3 TCR = 222% of Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Preferred Compounding - Barberton safety composite

Preferred Compounding - Barberton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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).

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

Preferred Compounding - Barberton held a steady TCR band

Preferred Compounding - Barberton's TCR held near 0.1 from 7.1 in 2016 to 7.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.1 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=7.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326299 · Barberton, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 222% of ind

DART 3.1 DART
RANK #40/47
PHOTO Quality Synthetic Ru…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 25 inj
SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Quality Synthetic Rubber (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hexpol Compoun

7.5
HEXPOL Whitewa

7.4
This site

7.3
Quality Synthe

7.3
Amalga Composi

7.3

What this shows Preferred Compounding - Barberton averages 7.3 TCR (222% of the Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Preferred Compounding - Barberton TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Preferred Compounding - Barberton falls in its industry

257 Sheeting, rubber, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 47 Sheeting, rubber, manufacturin employers in Ohio.

Preferred Compounding - Barberton (111 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Preferred Compounding - Barberton has more employees than the Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2018	7.3	3.1	6	1
2017	7.5	4.5	9	1
2016	7.1	5.0	10	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326299 · OH · Barberton

257 Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 58 employers in Barberton, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Quality Synthetic Rubber	JASPER, GA	7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Amalga Composites	WEST ALLIS, WI	7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	HEXPOL Whitewater	WHITEWATER, WI	7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hexpol Compounding	WHITEWATER, WI	7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Acorn Farms - Zanesville	ZANESVILLE	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Canton Estrn Reg Ofc	CANTON	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	902-NiSource-Columbus OH-Marble Cliff	COLUMBUS	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	KS Energy Services (Cincinnati)	CINCINNATI	111 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Barberton Campus	Barberton	888 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BWX Technologies, Inc. Nuclear Operations Group - Barberton	Barberton	825 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BWX Technologies, LLC	Barberton	737 FTE
CITY-NEAR	S.A. Comunale - Norton	Barberton	612 FTE
NAT-TCR	Brookdale Mansfield	Mansfield, TX	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	The Watershed at Clear Lake - 20	Webster, TX	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Western Hills Health Care Center	Lakewood, CO	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Brookdale Troy-MC	Troy, MI	7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	St. Joseph Center	Freeport, IL	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Grace Living Center-Bethany	Bethany, OK	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Manchester Health Care Center	Manchester, TN	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Healthcare Visions, Inc. dba Beechwood	New London, CT	111 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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