Fixtures, electric lighting, merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Sign Source USA

Lima, OH · ~56 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sign Source USA runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fixtures, electric lighting, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Sign Source USA: 3.2 TCR = 147% of Fixtures, electric lighting, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sign Source USA safety composite

Sign Source USA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2017→2023

Sign Source USA injury rate improved

Sign Source USA's TCR fell 1.8 from 5.3 in 2017 to 3.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.3 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=2.0 · 2023=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423610 · Lima, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.2 · 147% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #36/48
  • PHOTO Regional Zone - Staf…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Regional Zone - Stafford, TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sign Source USA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sign Source USA averages 3.2 TCR (147% of the Fixtures, electric lighting, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Sign Source USA TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=2 · 2023=3.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Sign Source USA falls in its industry

1,190 Fixtures, electric lighting, m establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 48 Fixtures, electric lighting, m employers in Ohio.

Sign Source USA (56 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sign Source USA
Sign Source USA (56 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Sign Source USA has more employees than the Fixtures, electric lighting, merchant wh median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2023 3.5 0.0 2 0 0
2019 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2018 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2017 5.3 1.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423610 · OH · Lima

1,190 Fixtures, electric lighting, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 243 employers in Lima, 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 Regional Zone - Stafford, TX 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR US - Distribution Center Network : 0935 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 003 - FOUNTAIN INN, SC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 010 - BORDENTOWN, NJ 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rindler Poultry LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canton General Service Center 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 919-NiSource-Chillicothe OH-Three Rivers Op 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 977-NiSource-Findlay OH-Lake Erie Op Ctr 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health St Ritas Medical Center 2,540 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Rita's Medical Center 2,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Ritas Medical Center 2,445 FTE
CITY-NEAR LIMA ENGINE 1,457 FTE
NAT-TCR The Maids of Sarasota 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Environmental Demolition Insight Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Niles, Mi 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lutheran Homes of South Carolina, Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Custom Trench, Inc 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Long Island Precast, Inc. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Olum's Johnson City 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Air Professional Associates, LLC 56 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: 2023, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.