Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing · Ohio

REK Associates, LLC

Findlay, OH · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

REK Associates, LLC runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

REK Associates, LLC: 4.0 TCR = 103% of Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

REK Associates, LLC safety composite

REK Associates, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

REK Associates, LLC held a steady TCR band

REK Associates, LLC's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.9 in 2020 to 4.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.9 · 2021=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Findlay, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 103% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #28/41
  • PHOTO Whittemore
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Whittemore (0.0 TCR gap)

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REK Associates, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows REK Associates, LLC averages 4.0 TCR (103% of the Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

REK Associates, LLC TCR series: 2020=3.9 · 2021=4.1 · BLS 3.9

Where REK Associates, LLC falls in its industry

756 Animal feeds, prepared (except establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 41 Animal feeds, prepared (except employers in Ohio.

REK Associates, LLC (23 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate REK Associates, LLC
REK Associates, LLC (23 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

REK Associates, LLC has fewer employees than the Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and c median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2021 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2020 3.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · OH · Findlay

756 Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 184 employers in Findlay, 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 Whittemore 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buchheit Agri 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stillwater Milling Feed Mill and Main Office 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bakery Feeds - Watts, Ok 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE MID EAST PRODUCTION LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schlessman Seed Co 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake County Nursery 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE LCN Holdings Inc dba Lake County Nursery 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Findlay Campus 2,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whirlpool Corporation 2,266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whirlpool Corporation - Findlay Operations 2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blanchard Valley Hospital 1,978 FTE
NAT-TCR 2077-Us Dd Nw Jupiter Branch 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR R&R Packaging Inc 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Polymer Technology - Harmony 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-922-West Elm 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Manorcare Yardley 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Manorcare Kingston Court 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Hobart & William Smith Col-Caf 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Manorcare Roland Park 23 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. 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.