Aluminum pipe made by extruding purchased aluminum · Ohio

Vari-Wall Tube Specialists, In

Columbiana, OH · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vari-Wall Tube Specialists, In runs at 329% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Aluminum pipe made by extruding purchased aluminum workplace, earning a grade F.

Vari-Wall Tube Specialists, In: 10.9 TCR = 329% of Aluminum pipe made by extruding purchased aluminum BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vari-Wall Tube Specialists, In safety composite

Vari-Wall Tube Specialists, In scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Vari-Wall Tube Specialists, In: 9.4 → 12.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2020

Vari-Wall Tube Specialists, In's TCR rose 3.0 from 9.4 in 2017 to 12.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331318 · Columbiana, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 329% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #15/16
  • PHOTO Apel Extrusions
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Apel Extrusions (0.8 TCR gap)

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Vari-Wall Tube Specialists, In in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vari-Wall Tube Specialists, In averages 10.9 TCR (329% of the Aluminum pipe made by extruding purchased aluminum BLS benchmark).

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

Vari-Wall Tube Specialists, In TCR series: 2017=9.4 · 2020=12.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Vari-Wall Tube Specialists, In falls in its industry

204 Aluminum pipe made by extrudin establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 16 Aluminum pipe made by extrudin employers in Ohio.

Vari-Wall Tube Specialists, In (40 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Vari-Wall Tube Specialists, In
Vari-Wall Tube Specialists, In (40 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Vari-Wall Tube Specialists, In has fewer employees than the Aluminum pipe made by extruding purchase median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2020 12.4 9.3 4 0 0
2017 9.4 4.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331318 · OH · Columbiana

204 Aluminum pipe made by extruding purchased aluminum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 40 employers in Columbiana, 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 Apel Extrusions 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal Alloy Corporation - Anaheim 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keyano 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tri City Extrusion Plant 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Croton Pullet 2 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chemsteel Construction Company 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE BluSky Restoration Contractors Toledo 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Summit Construction Company LLC (Akron) 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR R+L Carriers - YOU 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Envelope 1 Inc. 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHD Manufacturing, INc. 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Alzheimer's Center 109 FTE
NAT-TCR Yuma Surgery Center 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR NET Care Inc 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR EWR-NEWARK 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0018 0573 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Good Old Days Foods, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advantech Manufacturing, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE HydroChem LLC-TCX 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flemington,NJ 40 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: 2020, 2017. 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.