Welding wire or rods (i.e., coated, cored) manufacturing · Ohio

The Lincoln Electric Company - Mentor

Mentor, OH · ~514 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Lincoln Electric Company - Mentor runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Welding wire or rods (i.e., coated, cored) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

The Lincoln Electric Company - Mentor: 5.8 TCR = 177% of Welding wire or rods (i.e., coated, cored) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Lincoln Electric Company - Mentor safety composite

The Lincoln Electric Company - Mentor scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−3.5

2016→2024

The Lincoln Electric Company - Mentor injury rate improved

The Lincoln Electric Company - Mentor's TCR fell 3.5 from 6.8 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.8 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=5.0 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=6.0 · 2023=4.0 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333992 · Mentor, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 177% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #21/22
  • PHOTO ARCOS Industries LLC
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 252 inj
  • SIZE ~514 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ARCOS Industries LLC (0.2 TCR gap)

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The Lincoln Electric Company - Mentor in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Lincoln Electric Company - Mentor averages 5.8 TCR (177% of the Welding wire or rods (i.e., coated, cored) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

The Lincoln Electric Company - Mentor TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=5 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=6 · 2023=4 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where The Lincoln Electric Company - Mentor falls in its industry

129 Welding wire or rods (i.e., co establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 22 Welding wire or rods (i.e., co employers in Ohio.

The Lincoln Electric Company - Mentor (514 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate The Lincoln Electric Company - Mentor
The Lincoln Electric Company - Mentor (514 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8

The Lincoln Electric Company - Mentor has more employees than the Welding wire or rods (i.e., coated, core median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 3.3 1.2 16 0 0
2023 4.0 2.6 21 0 0
2022 6.0 2.3 31 1 0
2021 6.3 2.1 27 3 0
2020 6.1 1.3 29 0 0
2019 6.8 2.5 35 0 0
2018 5.0 0.8 26 0 0
2017 8.4 1.5 39 1 0
2016 6.8 1.6 28 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333992 · OH · Mentor

129 Welding wire or rods (i.e., coated, cored) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 180 employers in Mentor, 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 ARCOS Industries LLC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Welform Electrodes, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire and Marine Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weld-Rite Services Inc. 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Millercoors Trenton Brewery 513 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bay Park Community Hospital 513 FTE
STATE-SIZE TP Mechanical 512 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Processing/Plant 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steris HQ 835 FTE
CITY-NEAR STERIS 612 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avery Dennison - Materials Group Building 22 612 FTE
CITY-NEAR STERIS Endoscopy 503 FTE
NAT-TCR CMP - Brunswick Service Building 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbia Energy Center 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeland Pouring Plant 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill CFL - Curry Ford 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clinton Power Station 514 FTE
NAT-SIZE Physicians Regional Healthcare System -Collier 514 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scottsville, DC 514 FTE
NAT-SIZE Red Onion State Prison 514 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.