Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing · Ohio

Southwood 8849 E Lincoln Facility

Orrville, OH · ~59 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwood 8849 E Lincoln Facility runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Southwood 8849 E Lincoln Facility: 5.5 TCR = 168% of Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwood 8849 E Lincoln Facility safety composite

Southwood 8849 E Lincoln Facility scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.73 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

Southwood 8849 E Lincoln Facility: 3.4 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2020

Southwood 8849 E Lincoln Facility's TCR rose 2.0 from 3.4 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Orrville, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 168% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #41/79
  • PHOTO Deufol Worldwide Pac…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Deufol Worldwide Packaging, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southwood 8849 E Lincoln Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwood 8849 E Lincoln Facility averages 5.5 TCR (168% of the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southwood 8849 E Lincoln Facility TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=8.5 · 2020=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Southwood 8849 E Lincoln Facility falls in its industry

952 Pallets, wood or wood and meta establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 79 Pallets, wood or wood and meta employers in Ohio.

Southwood 8849 E Lincoln Facility (59 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Southwood 8849 E Lincoln Facility
Southwood 8849 E Lincoln Facility (59 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Southwood 8849 E Lincoln Facility has more employees than the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combinat median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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
2020 5.5 2.7 4 0 0
2019 8.5 8.5 6 0 0
2018 4.6 4.6 3 0 0
2017 5.7 0.0 4 0 0
2016 3.4 1.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · OH · Orrville

952 Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 58 employers in Orrville, 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 Deufol Worldwide Packaging, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transpak - DIV 130 Tualatin 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harvest Lane Honey 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CHEP Services Newburgh TPM (UT5Q) 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Transmission Columbus Svc Ctr 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE JK Excavating, Inc. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brumbaugh Construction, Inc 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moraine Office & Miscellaneous Projects 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR The J.M. Smucker Company Corporate Office 1,798 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Quality Castings Company 331 FTE
CITY-NEAR The JM Smucker Company Manufacturing Facility 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aultman Orrville 302 FTE
NAT-TCR Two Men and a Truck, Springfield, MO 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ferrari of New England & Boch Maserati 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Performance Missouri - 1002 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hft #4 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Berkots Office/Warehouse 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pro Structural Inc 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crenshaw Die & Mfg 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE BarOle Trucking, Inc 59 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.