Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · Ohio

RBS Manufacturing

East Palestine, OH · ~25 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

RBS Manufacturing runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

RBS Manufacturing: 6.5 TCR = 198% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RBS Manufacturing safety composite

RBS Manufacturing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

RBS Manufacturing held a steady TCR band

RBS Manufacturing's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 19.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=19.3 · 2019=19.5 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=7.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · East Palestine, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 198% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #53/81
  • PHOTO Fab Steel - Flannery
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fab Steel - Flannery (0.0 TCR gap)

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RBS Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RBS Manufacturing averages 6.5 TCR (198% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

RBS Manufacturing TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=19.3 · 2019=19.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where RBS Manufacturing falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #53 safest of 81 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in Ohio.

RBS Manufacturing (25 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate RBS Manufacturing
RBS Manufacturing (25 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

RBS Manufacturing has fewer employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 7.0 3.5 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 19.5 4.9 4 0 0
2018 19.3 4.8 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · OH · East Palestine

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 10 employers in East Palestine, 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 Fab Steel - Flannery 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cooper Steel of Virginia, LLC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Plate (Akron) 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oelwein Facility 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rittman Orchards 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Convoy Dairy LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kalmbach Swine Management 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nature Pure Farm 2 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Threshold Residential Services 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR Covington Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR Covington SNF, Inc. 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Strohecker Incorporated 41 FTE
NAT-TCR Granville Restaurant Partners 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR OLG Lafayette Behavioral Health Unit 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rentex Inc. Las Vegas 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Remarms LaGrange 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Poisel Construction Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Key Fire Protection, Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE JAL Enterprises, Inc. dba The Source 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summers of Fort Wayne, Inc. 25 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, 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.