Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing · Ohio

Rubex Inc

Grove City, OH · ~34 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rubex Inc runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Rubex Inc: 5.8 TCR = 175% of Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rubex Inc safety composite

Rubex Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Rubex Inc: 4.3 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2024

Rubex Inc's TCR rose 0.8 from 4.3 in 2021 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Grove City, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 175% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #31/38
  • PHOTO Superior Stone Produ…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Superior Stone Products, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rubex Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rubex Inc averages 5.8 TCR (175% of the Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Rubex Inc TCR series: 2021=4.3 · 2022=8.9 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Rubex Inc falls in its industry

287 Adhesives (except asphalt, den establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 38 Adhesives (except asphalt, den employers in Ohio.

Rubex Inc (34 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Rubex Inc
Rubex Inc (34 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Rubex Inc has fewer employees than the Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 5.1 5.1 2 0 0
2023 4.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 8.9 8.9 3 0 0
2021 4.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · OH · Grove City

287 Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 139 employers in Grove City, 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 Superior Stone Products, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henkel Oak Creek 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emecole Metro 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olympic Adhesives, Inc. 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bauman Orchards Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Millcreek Gardens LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meadow View Growers, Inc 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE ayers farms inc 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-COLO 1,602 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mount Carmel Grove City Hospital 1,403 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6024 1,073 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6024 1,052 FTE
NAT-TCR Lake in the Hills 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Chapman Trucking Inc 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Haydon Corporation CA 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1180 - Greensboro Lawndale 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rj Liebe Athletic Lettering Co 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fronhofer Tool Company Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Peninsula Group 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heat Treating Services Plant 3 South 34 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, 2021. 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.