Silicone (except resins) manufacturing · Ohio

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Evans 2

Akron, OH · ~30 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Evans 2 runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Silicone (except resins) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Evans 2: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Silicone (except resins) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Evans 2 safety composite

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Evans 2 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Evans 2 held a steady TCR band

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Evans 2's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Akron, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #23/44
  • PHOTO Silbond Corporation
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Silbond Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Evans 2 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Evans 2 averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Silicone (except resins) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Evans 2 TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Evans 2 falls in its industry

552 Silicone (except resins) manuf establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

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 44 Silicone (except resins) manuf employers in Ohio.

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Evans 2 (30 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Evans 2
Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Evans 2 (30 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Evans 2 has fewer employees than the Silicone (except resins) manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2022 5.4 2.7 1 1 0
2021 5.8 2.9 1 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · OH · Akron

552 Silicone (except resins) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 512 employers in Akron, 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 Silbond Corporation 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Damar 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR allnex USA Inc - Kalamazoo 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturers Chemicals 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tuente Farms Inc 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farm 3 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Layer 6 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canton Hatchery 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron 6,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron Children's Hospital 6,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summa Health - Akron City 4,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron General Medical Center 4,176 FTE
NAT-TCR Donaldson Company 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Elliott Machine Shop 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sexton Farms LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hidden Lake 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hershey Courtyard 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1960 43 Liberty Drive - Workshop 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blind Industries - Salisbury Cutting 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Global Home Improvements Inc 30 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, 2020, 2019. 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.