Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing · Ohio

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc.

Akron, OH · ~120 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc.: 2.0 TCR = 61% of Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. safety composite

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc.: 1.5 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2019

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.9 from 1.5 in 2018 to 2.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326299 · Akron, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 61% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #13/47
  • PHOTO Cooper-Standard New …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cooper-Standard New Philadelphia 2228 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. 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. averages 2.0 TCR (61% of the Sheeting, rubber, 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. TCR series: 2018=1.5 · 2019=2.5 · BLS 3.3

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

257 Sheeting, rubber, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 47 Sheeting, rubber, manufacturin employers in Ohio.

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. (120 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc.
Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. (120 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. has more employees than the Sheeting, rubber, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2019 2.5 1.2 1 1 0
2018 1.5 1.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326299 · OH · Akron

257 Sheeting, rubber, 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 Cooper-Standard New Philadelphia 2228 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR K-Flex USA LLC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essentra 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Re-Tek, Inc 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAM Industrial Solutions @ Cenovus 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE CMS Corporation 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Messer Construction Co. - Columbus Region 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baker DC, LLC 120 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 Canarsie Service Center (Ny43) 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Leader Tech Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Westwood Elementary School 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ACI-Herzog, Joint Venture 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bagcraft - City of Industry 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE S05324 - WM of the Twin Cities - Burnsville 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE S06617 - Germantown MRF 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE 402 Valley Ave NW 120 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: 2019, 2018. 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.