Pallets, metal, manufacturing · Ohio

Valley Metal Works

Cincinnati, OH · ~31 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley Metal Works runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pallets, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Valley Metal Works: 5.4 TCR = 163% of Pallets, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Metal Works safety composite

Valley Metal Works scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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)
D 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Valley Metal Works: 0.0 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.58× in 2024

Valley Metal Works's TCR rose 8.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 8.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Cincinnati, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 163% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK #55/80
  • PHOTO US9111 Rancho Doming…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US9111 Rancho Dominguez (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley Metal Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Metal Works averages 5.4 TCR (163% of the Pallets, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Valley Metal Works TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=13.8 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=8.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Valley Metal Works falls in its industry

827 Pallets, metal, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #55 safest of 80 Pallets, metal, manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Valley Metal Works (31 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Valley Metal Works
Valley Metal Works (31 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Valley Metal Works has fewer employees than the Pallets, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 8.5 8.5 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 9.3 6.2 3 0 0
2021 7.3 0.0 2 0 0
2020 3.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 5.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 13.8 2.8 5 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · OH · Cincinnati

827 Pallets, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,513 employers in Cincinnati, 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 US9111 Rancho Dominguez 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TWB Antioch 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TUUCI LLC 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Decor Wausaukee 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pine Valley Ranch 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Layer 5 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Croton Pullet 3 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 17,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Operations 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Evendale, OH 7,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain Evendale OH 6,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Petra Construction Corp. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR PCSI Location 570 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. - Unit 023/Kentucky Christian Univeristy 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill Huntley 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE L&P Painting Shop & Office 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wheeler Tank Manufacturing, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE WAVE Benton Harbor 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sindall Transport Inc. 31 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.