Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade · Ohio

Star Fab Columbiana

Columbiana, OH · ~42 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Star Fab Columbiana runs at 292% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade F.

Star Fab Columbiana: 9.7 TCR = 292% of Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Star Fab Columbiana safety composite

Star Fab Columbiana scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Star Fab Columbiana: 5.9 → 13.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2018

Star Fab Columbiana's TCR rose 7.6 from 5.9 in 2016 to 13.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Columbiana, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 292% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #49/52
  • PHOTO Hartford Finishing W…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hartford Finishing West (0.0 TCR gap)

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Star Fab Columbiana in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Star Fab Columbiana averages 9.7 TCR (292% of the Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Star Fab Columbiana TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2018=13.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Star Fab Columbiana falls in its industry

646 Powder coating metals and meta establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 52 Powder coating metals and meta employers in Ohio.

Star Fab Columbiana (42 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Star Fab Columbiana
Star Fab Columbiana (42 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Star Fab Columbiana has fewer employees than the Powder coating metals and metal products median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2018 13.4 8.1 5 0 0
2016 5.9 3.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · OH · Columbiana

646 Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 40 employers in Columbiana, 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 Hartford Finishing West 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR AZZ Galvanizing - Muncie 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR V&S Detroit Galvanizing LLC 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cadon Plating and Coatings 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Goshen Pullets 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consolidated Cooperative (Mount Gilead facility) 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus Storeroom Annex Stn 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2948_12474 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR R+L Carriers - YOU 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Envelope 1 Inc. 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHD Manufacturing, INc. 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Alzheimer's Center 109 FTE
NAT-TCR Atlanta CSC 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Spincraft 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0029 3258 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-951-Williams Sonoma 9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE PTR 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wayne White Counties Electric Cooperative 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milton District Office 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parkway Products Loveland Colorado 42 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: 2018, 2016. 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.