Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing · Ohio

The Fred D. Pfening Company

Columbus, OH · ~55 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Fred D. Pfening Company runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

The Fred D. Pfening Company: 2.0 TCR = 62% of Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Fred D. Pfening Company safety composite

The Fred D. Pfening Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.7

2018→2023

The Fred D. Pfening Company injury rate improved

The Fred D. Pfening Company's TCR fell 1.7 from 3.4 in 2018 to 1.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.4 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333241 · Columbus, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 62% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/25
  • PHOTO OLM Food Systems Sio…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OLM Food Systems Sioux Falls - 4040 (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Fred D. Pfening Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Fred D. Pfening Company averages 2.0 TCR (62% of the Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

The Fred D. Pfening Company TCR series: 2018=3.4 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where The Fred D. Pfening Company falls in its industry

215 Bakery machinery and equipment establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 25 Bakery machinery and equipment employers in Ohio.

The Fred D. Pfening Company (55 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The Fred D. Pfening Company
The Fred D. Pfening Company (55 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

The Fred D. Pfening Company has fewer employees than the Bakery machinery and equipment manufactu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.5 1.7 2 0 0
2018 3.4 1.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · OH · Columbus

215 Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, 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 OLM Food Systems Sioux Falls - 4040 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WK-Oliver Packaging & Equipment Company 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMF Automation Technologies, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BE&SCO 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE IGS Solar 6100 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dolan Lab 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Backbone Power Systems LLC 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus NE Service Center 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR Randolph Austin Company 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Country View Nursing Facility 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BrandSafway Services, LLC - Albany Branch 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Johnson Controls, Phoenix Distribution Center 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compassus - Owasso 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bowers Hill Yard 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canyon Creek Memory Care 55 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.