Polyurethane foam products manufacturing · Ohio

Sorbothane Inc.

Kent, OH · ~26 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sorbothane Inc. runs at 17% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Polyurethane foam products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Sorbothane Inc.: 0.6 TCR = 17% of Polyurethane foam products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sorbothane Inc. safety composite

Sorbothane Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Sorbothane Inc. held a steady TCR band

Sorbothane Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Kent, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 17% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/26
  • PHOTO FXI - Portage
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FXI - Portage (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sorbothane Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sorbothane Inc. averages 0.6 TCR (17% of the Polyurethane foam products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sorbothane Inc. TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Sorbothane Inc. falls in its industry

474 Polyurethane foam products man establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

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 26 Polyurethane foam products man employers in Ohio.

Sorbothane Inc. (26 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sorbothane Inc.
Sorbothane Inc. (26 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Sorbothane Inc. has fewer employees than the Polyurethane foam products manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 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

326150 · OH · Kent

474 Polyurethane foam products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 188 employers in Kent, 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 FXI - Portage 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pregis - Granite Falls 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bristol (BP) 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DeForest (BP) 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hog and Maitenance 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE YNOT Farm 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE OA Facility Maintenance Shop 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE SMT INDUSTRIES 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR CARTER LUMBER CORPORATE OFFICE 600 786 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3722 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3722 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Podnar Plastics, Inc. 324 FTE
NAT-TCR Louisiana Crane & Construction, LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Innova 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 00414 Grants Pass Opns Ctr 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Louisiana-Pacific St. Louis 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Precision Glass and Aluminum, Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Leon's Signs, Inc 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fuse Fabrication, LLC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buckner Energy LLC 26 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.