Fence gates, posts, and fittings, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants · Ohio

Richard's Fence Company

Akron, OH · ~33 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Richard's Fence Company runs at 220% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fence gates, posts, and fittings, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants workplace, earning a grade F.

Richard's Fence Company: 7.3 TCR = 220% of Fence gates, posts, and fittings, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richard's Fence Company safety composite

Richard's Fence Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.2

2017→2024

Richard's Fence Company injury rate improved

Richard's Fence Company's TCR fell 5.2 from 8.3 in 2017 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 14.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.3 · 2018=3.0 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=14.2 · 2021=11.7 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Akron, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 220% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/14
  • PHOTO US Wire : Kent
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US Wire : Kent (0.0 TCR gap)

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Richard's Fence Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richard's Fence Company averages 7.3 TCR (220% of the Fence gates, posts, and fittings, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants BLS benchmark).

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

Richard's Fence Company TCR series: 2017=8.3 · 2018=3 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=14.2 · 2021=11.7 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Richard's Fence Company falls in its industry

163 Fence gates, posts, and fittin establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 14 Fence gates, posts, and fittin employers in Ohio.

Richard's Fence Company (33 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Richard's Fence Company
Richard's Fence Company (33 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Richard's Fence Company has fewer employees than the Fence gates, posts, and fittings, iron o median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2024 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2021 11.7 11.7 4 0 0
2020 14.2 14.2 5 0 0
2019 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 8.3 8.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · OH · Akron

163 Fence gates, posts, and fittings, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 512 employers in Akron, 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 US Wire : Kent 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brown-Pacific, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sumiden Wire Products Corporation - TN 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Strand Tech Manufacturing, Inc. 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Foertmeyer & Sons Greenhouse 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Croton Pullet 1 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative, Inc. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Philadelphia Service Building 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron 6,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron Children's Hospital 6,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summa Health - Akron City 4,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron General Medical Center 4,176 FTE
NAT-TCR CSB Nutrition Corporation 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR J. C. Lansdowne, Inc. 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Zimbrick Chevrolet 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Miami North 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Innovation Mold & Design, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hunsaker Exteriors 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mi - Gm Ppo 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gembecki Mechanical Services Inc 33 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.