Starch glues manufacturing · Ohio

The Ruscoe Company- Miller

Akron, OH · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Ruscoe Company- Miller runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Starch glues manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

The Ruscoe Company- Miller: 5.5 TCR = 166% of Starch glues manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Ruscoe Company- Miller safety composite

The Ruscoe Company- Miller scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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 Ruscoe Company- Miller: 4.4 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.4× in 2024

The Ruscoe Company- Miller's TCR rose 7.1 from 4.4 in 2020 to 11.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Akron, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 166% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #29/38
  • PHOTO WORTHEN NH 34 CELLU …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WORTHEN NH 34 CELLU DRIVE (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Ruscoe Company- Miller in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Ruscoe Company- Miller averages 5.5 TCR (166% of the Starch glues manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

The Ruscoe Company- Miller TCR series: 2020=4.4 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=11.5 · BLS 3.3

Where The Ruscoe Company- Miller falls in its industry

287 Starch glues manufacturing establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 38 Starch glues manufacturing employers in Ohio.

The Ruscoe Company- Miller (26 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 The Ruscoe Company- Miller
The Ruscoe Company- Miller (26 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

The Ruscoe Company- Miller has fewer employees than the Starch glues manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 11.5 7.7 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 7.5 3.8 2 0 0
2021 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2020 4.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · OH · Akron

287 Starch glues manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 512 employers in Akron, 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 WORTHEN NH 34 CELLU DRIVE 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henkel - Cleveland 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Protecto Wrap Cherokee Warehouse 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR M Argueso & Co dba Paramelt Muskegon 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hog and Maitenance 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE YNOT Farm 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE OA Facility Maintenance Shop 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE SMT INDUSTRIES 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron 6,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron Children's Hospital 6,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summa Health - Akron City 4,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron General Medical Center 4,176 FTE
NAT-TCR Dunkirk SC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Principal Delivery, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Douglas Construction 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PathPoint Los Angeles 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dirt Hugger 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE FZE Manufacturing Solutions, LLC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Davis iron & Metal FS 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walton Process Technologies, Inc. 26 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. 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.