Spices and spice mix manufacturing · Ohio

Symrise - Elyria

Name: Symrise - Elyria Workplace Safety Data
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Elyria, OH · ~84 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.8
Avg TCR: 4.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Symrise - Elyria runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Spices and spice mix manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Symrise - Elyria: 2.8 TCR = 68% of Spices and spice mix manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Symrise - Elyria safety composite

Symrise - Elyria scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

Symrise - Elyria: 1.6 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2023

Symrise - Elyria's TCR rose 1.8 from 1.6 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Elyria, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 68% of ind

DART 2.5 DART
RANK #6/14
PHOTO US Salt LLC
BOOK 8y book
INJ 22 inj
SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US Salt LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.8
Kernel Season'

2.8

What this shows Symrise - Elyria averages 2.8 TCR (68% of the Spices and spice mix manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Symrise - Elyria TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=4 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 4.1

Where Symrise - Elyria falls in its industry

200 Spices and spice mix manufactu establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 14 Spices and spice mix manufactu employers in Ohio.

Symrise - Elyria (84 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Symrise - Elyria has fewer employees than the Spices and spice mix manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023	3.3	2.5	4
2022	6.6	5.7	8
2021	0.0	0.0	0
2020	4.3	3.2	4
2019	1.2	1.2	1
2018	1.4	1.4	1
2017	4.0	2.7	3
2016	1.6	1.6	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · OH · Elyria

200 Spices and spice mix manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 118 employers in Elyria, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	US Salt LLC	WATKINS GLEN, NY	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Magellan	HANOVER, MD	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kernel Season's LLC	ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Givaudan Flavors Corporation	LAKELAND, FL	2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Phillips Companies	BEAVERCREEK	84 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Columbus Mound Street Service Center	COLUMBUS	84 FTE
STATE-SIZE	GEM Industrial Inc. - Husky Energy, Lima	LIMA	84 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bruns Building and Development and Ohio and Indiana Roofing	SAINT HENRY	84 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Elyria Medical Center	Elyria	1,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, LLC - Elyria	Elyria	680 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ridge Tool	Elyria	655 FTE
CITY-NEAR	4255	Elyria	404 FTE
NAT-TCR	Mitchell	Moundsville, WV	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Barnes Aerospace Lansing Division	Lansing, MI	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Premier Press	Portland, OR	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Seaboard Energy of Oklahoma, LLC	Guymon, OK	2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	AEP Transmission Tulsa Off-SC	Tulsa, OK	84 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Arsenal Hill Ctrl Ctr and Envr	Shreveport, LA	84 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Jarvis Airfoil Inc	Portland, CT	84 FTE
NAT-SIZE	J.W. Koehler Electric, Inc.	Davenport, IA	84 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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