Safety (i.e., pop-off) valves, industrial-type, manufacturing · Ohio

Richards Industrials

Cincinnati, OH · ~114 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Richards Industrials runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Safety (i.e., pop-off) valves, industrial-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Richards Industrials: 3.9 TCR = 118% of Safety (i.e., pop-off) valves, industrial-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richards Industrials safety composite

Richards Industrials scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−2.7

2022→2024

Richards Industrials injury rate improved

Richards Industrials's TCR fell 2.7 from 5.2 in 2022 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.2 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332911 · Cincinnati, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 118% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #23/25
  • PHOTO Kerotest Manufacturi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kerotest Manufacturing Corp. Pittsburgh, PA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Richards Industrials in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richards Industrials averages 3.9 TCR (118% of the Safety (i.e., pop-off) valves, industrial-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Richards Industrials TCR series: 2022=5.2 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Richards Industrials falls in its industry

298 Safety (i.e., pop-off) valves, establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 25 Safety (i.e., pop-off) valves, employers in Ohio.

Richards Industrials (114 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Richards Industrials
Richards Industrials (114 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Richards Industrials has more employees than the Safety (i.e., pop-off) valves, industria median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 2.5 0.0 2 0 0
2022 5.2 1.5 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332911 · OH · Cincinnati

298 Safety (i.e., pop-off) valves, industrial-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,513 employers in Cincinnati, 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 Kerotest Manufacturing Corp. Pittsburgh, PA 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milton Industries 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFT Inc 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Griswold Industries 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE AKRON EASTWOOD SHOP 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE EASTERN RANDALL SHOP 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Independence Construction, LLC 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Geiger Bros Mechanical 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 17,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Operations 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Evendale, OH 7,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain Evendale OH 6,400 FTE
NAT-TCR IPM, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Quinn Bros of Essex inc 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Blaine 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Arrowaste, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE OnRamp LLC 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pennland Pure 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Construction Management & Builders, Inc. 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Worth 114 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, 2022. 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.