Cigarettes merchant wholesalers · Ohio

The Amster-Kirtz Company

Canton, OH · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Amster-Kirtz Company runs at 268% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cigarettes merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

The Amster-Kirtz Company: 5.9 TCR = 268% of Cigarettes merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Amster-Kirtz Company safety composite

The Amster-Kirtz Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

Rising injury rate

The Amster-Kirtz Company: 5.1 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

The Amster-Kirtz Company's TCR rose 1.5 from 5.1 in 2017 to 6.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424940 · Canton, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.9 · 268% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P29
  • PHOTO Amcon - Omaha
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amcon - Omaha (0.1 TCR gap)

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The Amster-Kirtz Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Amster-Kirtz Company averages 5.9 TCR (268% of the Cigarettes merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

The Amster-Kirtz Company TCR series: 2017=5.1 · 2018=6.7 · BLS 2.2

Where The Amster-Kirtz Company falls in its industry

62 Cigarettes merchant wholesaler establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
The Amster-Kirtz Company (44 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate The Amster-Kirtz Company
The Amster-Kirtz Company (44 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.5

The Amster-Kirtz Company has fewer employees than the Cigarettes merchant wholesalers median and a higher 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2018 6.7 0.0 3 0 0
2017 5.1 2.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424940 · OH · Canton

62 Cigarettes merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 330 employers in Canton, 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 Amcon - Omaha 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modern Distributors Inc 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amcon - Quincy 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stewart Distribution 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE D.T.S.S. Inc. 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Day Farms - Croton 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Licking Rural Electricfication 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus SE Service Center 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aultman Main Campus 3,796 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aultman Hospital 3,406 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center, Inc 2,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hosp 2,321 FTE
NAT-TCR MFH Little Rock Day Treatment 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rodeo Plastics 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR GlenCrest Healthcare & Rehabilitation Centre 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR DLP Services, LLC 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Padgett Trucking, INC. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE SJC - Airport United Airlines Offices 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henry & Sons Construction Company, Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE UG2 - 520 - Walden Galleria 44 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.