Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants · Ohio

Solon Specialty Wire

Name: Solon Specialty Wire Workplace Safety Data
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Solon, OH · ~71 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Solon Specialty Wire runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants workplace, earning a grade B.

Solon Specialty Wire: 1.7 TCR = 53% of Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Solon Specialty Wire safety composite

Solon Specialty Wire scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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).

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

Solon Specialty Wire: 1.3 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2024

Solon Specialty Wire's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.3 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Solon, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 53% of ind

DART 1.7 DART
RANK #2/14
PHOTO Insteel Wire AZW
BOOK 7y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Insteel Wire AZW (0.0 TCR gap)

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Elgiloy Specia

1.8
Master-Halco,

1.8
This site

1.7
Insteel Wire A

1.7
Insteel Wire P

1.7

What this shows Solon Specialty Wire averages 1.7 TCR (53% of the Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants BLS benchmark).

Solon Specialty Wire TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=2.5 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Solon Specialty Wire falls in its industry

163 Wire products, iron or steel, establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 14 Wire products, iron or steel, employers in Ohio.

Solon Specialty Wire (71 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Solon Specialty Wire has more employees than the Wire products, iron or steel, made in wi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2024	1.7	1.7	1
2021	2.5	2.5	2
2020	1.2	1.2	1
2019	4.3	2.9	3
2018	1.2	0.0	1
2017	0.0	0.0	0
2016	1.3	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · OH · Solon

163 Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 145 employers in Solon, 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	Insteel Wire AZW	KINGMAN, AZ	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Insteel Wire Products MOW	SAINT JOSEPH, MO	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Sycamore	SYCAMORE, IL	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Master-Halco, Inc. - Dallas MFG 031	DALLAS, TX	1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	DuPont Pioneer Grand Rapids Production GRA1	GRAND RAPIDS	71 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rudolph Libbe Inc. - Ford Ohio Assembly Plant, Avon Lake	AVON LAKE	71 FTE
STATE-SIZE	John G. Johnson Construction Office	CLEVELAND	71 FTE
STATE-SIZE	R&R Pipeline Inc.	NEWARK	71 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Swagelok OFC	Solon	1,274 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Order Fulfillment Center	Solon	1,230 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Nestle USA	Solon	1,175 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Swagelok Main Plant	Solon	1,051 FTE
NAT-TCR	EMS Technologies, Inc	Binghamton, NY	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	London KY	London, KY	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Harvard Chemical, LLC	Atlanta, GA	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Nation Ford Chemical Company	Fort Mill, SC	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	National Electric Works	San Diego, CA	71 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Solon Corporation	Tucson, AZ	71 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Orchard Park at Southfork	Manvel, TX	71 FTE
NAT-SIZE	119 San Antonio	San Antonio, TX	71 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.