Beverages, dietary, dairy and nondairy based · Ohio

SensoryEffects - Defiance

Name: SensoryEffects - Defiance Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Defiance, OH · ~100 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

SensoryEffects - Defiance runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Beverages, dietary, dairy and nondairy based workplace, earning a grade A.

SensoryEffects - Defiance: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Beverages, dietary, dairy and nondairy based BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SensoryEffects - Defiance safety composite

SensoryEffects - Defiance scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−0.8

2017→2018

SensoryEffects - Defiance injury rate improved

SensoryEffects - Defiance's TCR fell 0.8 from 1.7 in 2017 to 0.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.7 · 2018=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311514 · Defiance, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

DART 0.9 DART
RANK #7/9
PHOTO Balchem - Marshfield
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Balchem - Marshfield (0.0 TCR gap)

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Balchem - Mars

1.4
SensoryEffects

1.4
This site

1.3
Nestle Nutriti

1.3
Allerton, IA

1.2

What this shows SensoryEffects - Defiance averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Beverages, dietary, dairy and nondairy based BLS benchmark).

SensoryEffects - Defiance TCR series: 2017=1.7 · 2018=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where SensoryEffects - Defiance falls in its industry

185 Beverages, dietary, dairy and establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Beverages, dietary, dairy and employers in Ohio.

SensoryEffects - Defiance (100 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5

SensoryEffects - Defiance has more employees than the Beverages, dietary, dairy and nondairy b median and a lower 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
2018	0.9	0.9	1	0	0
2017	1.7	0.9	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311514 · OH · Defiance

185 Beverages, dietary, dairy and nondairy based employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 65 employers in Defiance, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Balchem - Marshfield	MARSHFIELD, WI	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SensoryEffects - Sleepy Eye	SLEEPY EYE, MN	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Nestle Nutrition	EAU CLAIRE, WI	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Allerton, IA	ALLERTON, IA	1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	NORTHEASTERN - NORTHEAST SHOP	WICKLIFFE	100 FTE
STATE-SIZE	All Locations	DELAWARE	100 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Miles-McClellan Construction Company, Inc.	COLUMBUS	100 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Precision Pipeline Services	LANCASTER	100 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Campbell Soup Supply Company, LLC	Defiance	1,425 FTE
CITY-NEAR	General Motors LLC.	Defiance	734 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Defiance 8	Defiance	437 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Defiance Regional Medical Center	Defiance	363 FTE
NAT-TCR	84- Middletown	Middletown, CT	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	T1 - Middletown	Middletown, NY	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Oldcastle OPI - HoustonDC	Houston, TX	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Oldcastle OPI - Houston	Houston, TX	1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	N and R of Christian Republic LLC	Republic, MO	100 FTE
NAT-SIZE	St. Joseph Health Center	Providence, RI	100 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Subaru Distributors Corp.	Orangeburg, NY	100 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Stop & Shop 100680	Meriden, CT	100 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: 2018, 2017. 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.