Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Ohio

Tekfor, Inc

Wooster, OH · ~209 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tekfor, Inc runs at 269% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade F.

Tekfor, Inc: 8.9 TCR = 269% of Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tekfor, Inc safety composite

Tekfor, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.4

2016→2020

Tekfor, Inc injury rate improved

Tekfor, Inc's TCR fell 11.4 from 16.2 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 16.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.2 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Wooster, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 269% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #35/41
  • PHOTO Reliable Machine Com…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~209 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reliable Machine Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tekfor, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tekfor, Inc averages 8.9 TCR (269% of the Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Tekfor, Inc TCR series: 2016=16.2 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Tekfor, Inc falls in its industry

241 Hot forgings made from purchas establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 41 Hot forgings made from purchas employers in Ohio.

Tekfor, Inc (209 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Tekfor, Inc
Tekfor, Inc (209 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Tekfor, Inc has more employees than the Hot forgings made from purchased iron or median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 4.8 2.6 9 0 0
2019 5.7 3.1 10 3 0
2016 16.2 9.1 29 10 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · OH · Wooster

241 Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 133 employers in Wooster, 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 Reliable Machine Company 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modern Forge Tennessee LLC 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BERKELEY FORGE & TOOL, INC 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lehigh Heavy forge Corp 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE ES NA Services 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE Byesville, OH 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kahiki 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE DUF6 - Portsmouth 209 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scaheffler Transmissions LLC 1,907 FTE
CITY-NEAR LuK USA LLC 1,814 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schaeffler Transmission LLC 1,662 FTE
CITY-NEAR College of Wooster 771 FTE
NAT-TCR Groff Tractor & Equipment, Inc. - Cranberry Township 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Oak Grove Center 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Twin Falls Branch 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Homewood Flossmoor* 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Upper Deerfield Shoprite 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allfast Fastening Systems, Inc 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE UNI 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer #168 209 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, 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.