Machine shops · Ohio

The R. L. Best Company

Boardman, OH · ~22 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The R. L. Best Company runs at 369% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

The R. L. Best Company: 12.2 TCR = 369% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The R. L. Best Company safety composite

The R. L. Best Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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 R. L. Best Company: 4.7 → 13.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 22.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2019

The R. L. Best Company's TCR rose 8.5 from 4.7 in 2016 to 13.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 22.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Boardman, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.2 · 369% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #171/172
  • PHOTO Progressive Power Te…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Progressive Power Technologies (0.0 TCR gap)

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The R. L. Best Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The R. L. Best Company averages 12.2 TCR (369% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

The R. L. Best Company TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=22.5 · 2018=8.4 · 2019=13.2 · BLS 3.3

Where The R. L. Best Company falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #171 safest of 172 Machine shops employers in Ohio.

The R. L. Best Company (22 employees, TCR 12.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The R. L. Best Company
The R. L. Best Company (22 employees, TCR 12.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

The R. L. Best Company has fewer employees than the Machine shops 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
2019 13.2 4.4 3 0 0
2018 8.4 0.0 2 0 0
2017 22.5 0.0 5 0 0
2016 4.7 4.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · OH · Boardman

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 60 employers in Boardman, 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 Progressive Power Technologies 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lawruk Machine & Tool Co., Inc 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anderton Machining 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR N.E. Reihart & Sons, Inc. 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agri-Med OH LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rapid Ford Farm 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pheasant Run 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lucasville Farm 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center 1,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health St Elizabeth Boardman 1,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Elizabeth Boardman 1,095 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron - Mahoning Valley 818 FTE
NAT-TCR Administration 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dutchess County Healthy Families 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Roses 458 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bristol Crossings LLC 12.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hyatt Crystal City 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elderwood Development 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfield Inn Indianapolis Dt 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raschig USA El Dorado East Plant 22 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.