Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pins, handles, textile machinery accessories), manufacturing · Ohio

Walnut Creek Planing Ltd.(WC)

Millersburg, OH · ~120 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Walnut Creek Planing Ltd.(WC) runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pins, handles, textile machinery accessories), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Walnut Creek Planing Ltd.(WC): 4.5 TCR = 136% of Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pins, handles, textile machinery accessories), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Walnut Creek Planing Ltd.(WC) safety composite

Walnut Creek Planing Ltd.(WC) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−4.9

2017→2024

Walnut Creek Planing Ltd.(WC) injury rate improved

Walnut Creek Planing Ltd.(WC)'s TCR fell 4.9 from 7.4 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.4 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=8.6 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321912 · Millersburg, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 136% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO Tioga Hardwoods, Inc.
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tioga Hardwoods, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Walnut Creek Planing Ltd.(WC) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Walnut Creek Planing Ltd.(WC) averages 4.5 TCR (136% of the Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pins, handles, textile machinery accessories), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Walnut Creek Planing Ltd.(WC) TCR series: 2017=7.4 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=8.6 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Walnut Creek Planing Ltd.(WC) falls in its industry

178 Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pi establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 9 Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pi employers in Ohio.

Walnut Creek Planing Ltd.(WC) (120 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Walnut Creek Planing Ltd.(WC)
Walnut Creek Planing Ltd.(WC) (120 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Walnut Creek Planing Ltd.(WC) has more employees than the Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pins, handle median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 0.8 3 0 0
2023 3.3 1.6 3 1 0
2022 8.6 2.9 4 5 0
2021 2.5 0.8 2 1 0
2020 3.4 0.0 2 2 0
2019 5.7 2.4 6 1 0
2018 2.6 0.9 3 0 0
2017 7.4 0.9 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321912 · OH · Millersburg

178 Blanks, wood (e.g., bowling pins, handles, textile machinery accessories), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 61 employers in Millersburg, 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 Tioga Hardwoods, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Klamath Falls 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conner Lugoff SC Plant 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Genesis Products Plant 14 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAM Industrial Solutions @ Cenovus 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE CMS Corporation 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Messer Construction Co. - Columbus Region 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baker DC, LLC 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Walnut Creek Foods 370 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pomerene Hospital 325 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centor Berlin Ohio 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1724 246 FTE
NAT-TCR Foster Brothers Wood Products, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR First Student Fresno 20303 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR D.P. Tool & Machine, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Century Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3975 Township Line Road 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grade A Market 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morehead Wood Products 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Ramapo College of New Jersey 120 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.