Chicken feeders manufacturing · Ohio

Valco - main Plant

Coldwater, OH · ~61 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valco - main Plant runs at 264% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chicken feeders manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Valco - main Plant: 8.7 TCR = 264% of Chicken feeders manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valco - main Plant safety composite

Valco - main Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−6.7

2023→2024

Valco - main Plant injury rate improved

Valco - main Plant's TCR fell 6.7 from 12.0 in 2023 to 5.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=12.0 · 2024=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Coldwater, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 264% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO Kelley Manufacturing…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kelley Manufacturing Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valco - main Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valco - main Plant averages 8.7 TCR (264% of the Chicken feeders manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Valco - main Plant TCR series: 2023=12 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Valco - main Plant falls in its industry

433 Chicken feeders manufacturing establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Chicken feeders manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Valco - main Plant (61 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Valco - main Plant
Valco - main Plant (61 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Valco - main Plant has fewer employees than the Chicken feeders manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 5.4 0.0 3 0 0
2023 12.0 8.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · OH · Coldwater

433 Chicken feeders manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 28 employers in Coldwater, 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 Kelley Manufacturing Co. 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dodson Road orchards, 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GSI : Sioux City 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR KIRBY MANUFACTURING INC 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE DHI COOPERATIVE 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utility Technologies International 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northeast Operations Center 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE CIN 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Totally Promotional 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Casad Company Inc 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR Briarwood Village 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCF of Briarwood, Inc. 192 FTE
NAT-TCR Mtbil - Billings 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Samscreen, Inc 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Affordable Truss Inc. 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - SAX3 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 224 Wood River 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zeigler Racine Hyundai 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jack Richeson & Co. 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 61 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.