Sodium aluminate manufacturing · Ohio

Usalco Fairfield Plant

Fairfield, OH · ~27 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Usalco Fairfield Plant runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sodium aluminate manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Usalco Fairfield Plant: 3.2 TCR = 98% of Sodium aluminate manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Usalco Fairfield Plant safety composite

Usalco Fairfield Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.6

2021→2024

Usalco Fairfield Plant injury rate improved

Usalco Fairfield Plant's TCR fell 1.6 from 4.1 in 2021 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.1 · 2023=3.0 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Fairfield, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 98% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #21/29
  • PHOTO Ajay North America, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ajay North America, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Usalco Fairfield Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Usalco Fairfield Plant averages 3.2 TCR (98% of the Sodium aluminate manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Usalco Fairfield Plant TCR series: 2021=4.1 · 2023=3 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Usalco Fairfield Plant falls in its industry

418 Sodium aluminate manufacturing establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

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 29 Sodium aluminate manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Usalco Fairfield Plant (27 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Usalco Fairfield Plant
Usalco Fairfield Plant (27 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Usalco Fairfield Plant has fewer employees than the Sodium aluminate manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2023 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2021 4.1 4.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · OH · Fairfield

418 Sodium aluminate manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 148 employers in Fairfield, 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 Ajay North America, LLC. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waterway Plant 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BASF Corporation 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Soda Springs, ID 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jeff Creque Farms Inc 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE White Pond Gardens Inc 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wen Mar Farms, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Croton Pullet 2 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Fairfield Hospital 1,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfield Hospital 1,513 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Hospital Fairfield 1,494 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods 1,275 FTE
NAT-TCR Fredericka Manor 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Wasau - Seattle Auto Shop 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Laale - Alexandria 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Flchi - Chipley 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Town of Leland: Fire Station 53 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE VSMPO-Tirus, US 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Claffey's Corporation 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moxie Services Austin LLC 27 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.