Metallic soap manufacturing · Ohio

Struktol Company of America (1)

Stow, OH · ~97 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Struktol Company of America (1) runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Metallic soap manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Struktol Company of America (1): 2.5 TCR = 75% of Metallic soap manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Struktol Company of America (1) safety composite

Struktol Company of America (1) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Struktol Company of America (1) held a steady TCR band

Struktol Company of America (1)'s TCR held near 0.2 from 3.2 in 2020 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.2 · 2021=2.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Stow, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 75% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #27/44
  • PHOTO Shin-Etsu Silicones …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Evans 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Struktol Company of America (1) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Struktol Company of America (1) averages 2.5 TCR (75% of the Metallic soap manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Struktol Company of America (1) TCR series: 2020=3.2 · 2021=2 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Struktol Company of America (1) falls in its industry

552 Metallic soap manufacturing establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

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 44 Metallic soap manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Struktol Company of America (1) (97 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Struktol Company of America (1)
Struktol Company of America (1) (97 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Struktol Company of America (1) has more employees than the Metallic soap manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 2.9 2.9 3 0 0
2023 4.3 4.3 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2020 3.2 2.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · OH · Stow

552 Metallic soap manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 82 employers in Stow, 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 Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. Evans 1 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR IBC Advanced Technologies Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ChemDesign 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hardy Industrial Technologies 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Layer Site 4 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spieker Company 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smoot Construction - Company of Ohio 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Strawser Paving Company 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bermex, Inc 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACRT Services 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2323 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2323 353 FTE
NAT-TCR LifeCare@HOME 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CBI General Contractors, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Alliance Beverage Distributing 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lenox Tools- Irwin Industrial Tool Company 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Direct Traffic Control, Inc. 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jensen Rock & Sand 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Showalter Construction 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westland Floral Company Carpinteria, Inc. 97 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. 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.