Bolts, metal, manufacturing · Ohio

SEF - Nelson Stud Welding - Liberty

Elyria, OH · ~63 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SEF - Nelson Stud Welding - Liberty runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bolts, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

SEF - Nelson Stud Welding - Liberty: 5.1 TCR = 153% of Bolts, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SEF - Nelson Stud Welding - Liberty safety composite

SEF - Nelson Stud Welding - Liberty scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−6.2

2022→2024

SEF - Nelson Stud Welding - Liberty injury rate improved

SEF - Nelson Stud Welding - Liberty's TCR fell 6.2 from 7.7 in 2022 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=7.7 · 2023=6.0 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332722 · Elyria, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 153% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #23/38
  • PHOTO Ohio Screw Products,…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ohio Screw Products, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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SEF - Nelson Stud Welding - Liberty in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SEF - Nelson Stud Welding - Liberty averages 5.1 TCR (153% of the Bolts, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SEF - Nelson Stud Welding - Liberty TCR series: 2022=7.7 · 2023=6 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where SEF - Nelson Stud Welding - Liberty falls in its industry

335 Bolts, metal, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 28% 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 #23 safest of 38 Bolts, metal, manufacturing employers in Ohio.

SEF - Nelson Stud Welding - Liberty (63 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate SEF - Nelson Stud Welding - Liberty
SEF - Nelson Stud Welding - Liberty (63 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 3.5

SEF - Nelson Stud Welding - Liberty has fewer employees than the Bolts, metal, manufacturing 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
2024 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 6.0 3.0 2 2 0
2022 7.7 7.7 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332722 · OH · Elyria

335 Bolts, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 118 employers in Elyria, 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 Ohio Screw Products, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gripnail a Carlisle Brand 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ferry Cap and Set Screw 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fontana Fasteners 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cleveland 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nicholson Builders 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buckeye Pipeline Construction, Inc 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTHSTAR ASPHALT, INC. 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elyria Medical Center 1,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, LLC - Elyria 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ridge Tool 655 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4255 404 FTE
NAT-TCR TX209 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 001 Cottage Grove Animal Nutrition 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR RED Logistics, LLC 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Foothill Fire Protection, Inc 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Automated Building Control Systems Inc Tampa 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agru America Fernley 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE LCM Logistics LLC 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Prairie 6560 63 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. 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.