Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) · Ohio

Universal Oil, Inc.

Cleveland, OH · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Universal Oil, Inc. runs at 292% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) workplace, earning a grade F.

Universal Oil, Inc.: 6.4 TCR = 292% of Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Universal Oil, Inc. safety composite

Universal Oil, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Universal Oil, Inc.: 3.3 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.48× in 2024

Universal Oil, Inc.'s TCR rose 6.2 from 3.3 in 2023 to 9.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424720 · Cleveland, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 292% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Hays Oil Company
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hays Oil Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Universal Oil, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Universal Oil, Inc. averages 6.4 TCR (292% of the Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) BLS benchmark).

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

Universal Oil, Inc. TCR series: 2023=3.3 · 2024=9.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Universal Oil, Inc. falls in its industry

218 Petroleum and petroleum produc establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #7 safest of 8 Petroleum and petroleum produc employers in Ohio.

Universal Oil, Inc. (29 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Universal Oil, Inc.
Universal Oil, Inc. (29 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Universal Oil, Inc. has fewer employees than the Petroleum and petroleum products merchan median and a higher 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
2024 9.5 9.5 1 0 0
2023 3.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424720 · OH · Cleveland

218 Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (except bulk stations, terminals) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 922 employers in Cleveland, 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 Hays Oil Company 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stern Oil company 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR C&R Distributing, LLC 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marshall Main 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Union City Facility 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Breeder Division Field Office 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plibrico Refractories LLC - Oak Hill 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hanging Rock Energy Facility 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Main Campus 25,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 20,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Medical Center 10,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - CLEVELAND 3,641 FTE
NAT-TCR Farrell Distributing 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Douglas Press Inc 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR InterContinental New York Times Square 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ventura Foods 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Castle Machine Company 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ephrata Precision Parts Inc 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fabrication Holdings, LLC 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE FLO 29 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.