Sign, building, erection · Ohio

Wagner Electric Sign Company

Elyria, OH · ~21 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wagner Electric Sign Company runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sign, building, erection workplace, earning a grade D.

Wagner Electric Sign Company: 4.1 TCR = 145% of Sign, building, erection BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wagner Electric Sign Company safety composite

Wagner Electric Sign Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−6.3

2017→2024

Wagner Electric Sign Company injury rate improved

Wagner Electric Sign Company's TCR fell 6.3 from 6.3 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.3 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238990 · Elyria, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 145% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #52/64
  • PHOTO Westtern Specialty C…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Westtern Specialty Contractors - Branch 024 - Omaha, NE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wagner Electric Sign Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wagner Electric Sign Company averages 4.1 TCR (145% of the Sign, building, erection BLS benchmark).

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

Wagner Electric Sign Company TCR series: 2017=6.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Wagner Electric Sign Company falls in its industry

1,634 Sign, building, erection 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 #52 safest of 64 Sign, building, erection employers in Ohio.

Wagner Electric Sign Company (21 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Wagner Electric Sign Company
Wagner Electric Sign Company (21 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Wagner Electric Sign Company has fewer employees than the Sign, building, erection 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 7.3 7.3 1 0 0
2022 5.3 5.3 1 0 0
2021 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 6.3 6.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238990 · OH · Elyria

1,634 Sign, building, erection employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 118 employers in Elyria, 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 Westtern Specialty Contractors - Branch 024 - Omaha, NE 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swimming pools 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SA Quality Fence Ltd 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 007 - Springfield, IL 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grand Republic 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hog and Maintenance 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Hatchery 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms winesburg hatchery 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elyria Medical Center 1,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, LLC - Elyria 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ridge Tool 655 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4255 404 FTE
NAT-TCR Madrid 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Northwest Pipe Co. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Care One at Newton 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Standard Transportation Services Inc 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Woodland Hills 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Castlerock Excavating, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Annex 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Water Worx Services, Inc 21 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, 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.