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

Southwood Pallet LLC

Orrville, OH · ~69 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwood Pallet LLC runs at 122% 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 Pallet LLC: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwood Pallet LLC safety composite

Southwood Pallet LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Southwood Pallet LLC held a steady TCR band

Southwood Pallet LLC's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.9 in 2023 to 4.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.9 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #27/79
  • PHOTO Jackson,MS - 239
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jackson,MS - 239 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southwood Pallet LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwood Pallet LLC averages 4.0 TCR (122% 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 Pallet LLC TCR series: 2023=3.9 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Southwood Pallet LLC falls in its industry

952 Pallets, wood or wood and meta establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #27 safest of 79 Pallets, wood or wood and meta employers in Ohio.

Southwood Pallet LLC (69 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Pallet LLC
Southwood Pallet LLC (69 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Southwood Pallet LLC 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
2024 4.1 2.8 3 0 0
2023 3.9 2.6 3 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 Jackson,MS - 239 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pallet Exchange Co., Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nefab Packaging South East, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago (Lockport) IL - 315 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Main Office 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cambridge Ohio 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canton South Svc Ctr 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Shelly Company - Northeast Division - HMA 69 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 Super Giant Landover Store 2304 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Earth Resource Group 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Royal Group Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 120 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Erickson Transport 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Champion Contractors 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cougar Contracting LLC 69 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. 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.