Fire sprinkler system installation · Ohio

S.A. Comunale, Norton

Barberton, OH · ~367 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

S.A. Comunale, Norton runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fire sprinkler system installation workplace, earning a grade D.

S.A. Comunale, Norton: 4.8 TCR = 171% of Fire sprinkler system installation BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

S.A. Comunale, Norton safety composite

S.A. Comunale, Norton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

S.A. Comunale, Norton held a steady TCR band

S.A. Comunale, Norton's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.6 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.6 · 2017=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Barberton, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 171% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #230/300
  • PHOTO Stanger Industries, …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~367 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stanger Industries, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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S.A. Comunale, Norton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows S.A. Comunale, Norton averages 4.8 TCR (171% of the Fire sprinkler system installation BLS benchmark).

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

S.A. Comunale, Norton TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=5 · BLS 2.8

Where S.A. Comunale, Norton falls in its industry

5,793 Fire sprinkler system installa establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #230 safest of 300 Fire sprinkler system installa employers in Ohio.

S.A. Comunale, Norton (367 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 S.A. Comunale, Norton
S.A. Comunale, Norton (367 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

S.A. Comunale, Norton has more employees than the Fire sprinkler system installation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2017 5.0 2.6 15 0 0
2016 4.6 0.3 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · OH · Barberton

5,793 Fire sprinkler system installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 58 employers in Barberton, 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 Stanger Industries, Inc 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACT Perham 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GHC Mechanical, LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duggan Mechanical Services 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Midwest Communications Technologies, Inc. 367 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nela Park 367 FTE
STATE-SIZE Visiting Nurse Association of Ohio (Cleveland) 367 FTE
STATE-SIZE AKRON - 320 SPRINGSIDE 366 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barberton Campus 888 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWX Technologies, Inc. Nuclear Operations Group - Barberton 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWX Technologies, LLC 737 FTE
CITY-NEAR S.A. Comunale - Norton 612 FTE
NAT-TCR 0233 - Henrietta, Ny 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR SMG - U.S. Bank Stadium 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR D2 - Wilmington Upholstry 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Aa Admiral Club Jfk B Cc 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2073-ASA-20730100-MX 367 FTE
NAT-SIZE Supervalu Distribution Center - Champaign Urbana 36111 367 FTE
NAT-SIZE 850/859 American Construction Metals 367 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ormond Beach - 12 Southland Road 367 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: 2017, 2016. 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.