Automobile proving and testing grounds · Ohio

Transportation Research Center Inc.

East Liberty, OH · ~430 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Transportation Research Center Inc. runs at 292% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automobile proving and testing grounds workplace, earning a grade F.

Transportation Research Center Inc.: 1.5 TCR = 292% of Automobile proving and testing grounds BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Transportation Research Center Inc. safety composite

Transportation Research Center Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

−2.9

2018→2022

Transportation Research Center Inc. injury rate improved

Transportation Research Center Inc.'s TCR fell 2.9 from 3.4 in 2018 to 0.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.4 · 2019=0.5 · 2022=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541380 · East Liberty, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 1.5 · 292% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #10/13
  • PHOTO Arizona Proving Grou…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~430 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arizona Proving Grounds - Yucca (0.0 TCR gap)

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Transportation Research Center Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Transportation Research Center Inc. averages 1.5 TCR (292% of the Automobile proving and testing grounds BLS benchmark).

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

Transportation Research Center Inc. TCR series: 2018=3.4 · 2019=0.5 · 2022=0.5 · BLS 0.5

Where Transportation Research Center Inc. falls in its industry

232 Automobile proving and testing establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 13 Automobile proving and testing employers in Ohio.

Transportation Research Center Inc. (430 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Transportation Research Center Inc.
Transportation Research Center Inc. (430 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0

Transportation Research Center Inc. has more employees than the Automobile proving and testing grounds median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.0. 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
2022 0.5 0.2 2 0 0
2019 0.5 0.3 2 0 0
2018 3.4 1.9 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541380 · OH · East Liberty

232 Automobile proving and testing grounds employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 18 employers in East Liberty, 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 Arizona Proving Grounds - Yucca 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flood Testing Laboratories, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sentinal Power Services 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Environment Associates, inc 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zanesville Manufacturing Facility - KNA 430 FTE
STATE-SIZE Takumi Stamping Inc 430 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Step2 Company Inc, LLC - Streetsboro, OH Site 430 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sofo Foods of Ohio 430 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Liberty Automobile Plant 3,230 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midwest Express Inc 816 FTE
CITY-NEAR NEX Transport 690 FTE
CITY-NEAR One World Logistics of America Inc. 181 FTE
NAT-TCR Knifer River - Cheyenne 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Select-Arc Troy 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CHA-ODFL 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1286 - Oxford 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE S09356 - Kansas City Hauling 430 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Soules Foods Gainesville 430 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Luke's Miners Memorial Hospital 430 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sutter Gould Medical Foundation (195-101) 430 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: 2022, 2019, 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.