Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Ohio

Waltco Lift Corp-Tallmadge

Tallmadge, OH · ~202 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waltco Lift Corp-Tallmadge runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Waltco Lift Corp-Tallmadge: 2.9 TCR = 54% of Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waltco Lift Corp-Tallmadge safety composite

Waltco Lift Corp-Tallmadge scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Waltco Lift Corp-Tallmadge: 2.6 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2017

Waltco Lift Corp-Tallmadge's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.6 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Tallmadge, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 54% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #38/91
  • PHOTO Tenneco Lansing
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~202 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tenneco Lansing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waltco Lift Corp-Tallmadge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waltco Lift Corp-Tallmadge averages 2.9 TCR (54% of the Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Waltco Lift Corp-Tallmadge TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=3.3 · BLS 5.4

Where Waltco Lift Corp-Tallmadge falls in its industry

772 Hitches, trailer, automotive, establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 91 Hitches, trailer, automotive, employers in Ohio.

Waltco Lift Corp-Tallmadge (202 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Waltco Lift Corp-Tallmadge
Waltco Lift Corp-Tallmadge (202 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Waltco Lift Corp-Tallmadge has more employees than the Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2017 3.3 2.3 5 2 0
2016 2.6 0.9 3 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · OH · Tallmadge

772 Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 45 employers in Tallmadge, 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 Tenneco Lansing 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Filtration : Colorado Springs EMAM 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buyers Products Company - 3UC 8120 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&W Trailer Hitches 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Brewer-Garrett Company 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE KUTOL PRODUCTS COMPANY 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whirlaway Corporation Plant 1 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ariel Akron 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summit Racing Ohio 1,069 FTE
CITY-NEAR AutoSales dba Summit Racing Equipment 1,057 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steere 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD Myers LLC 232 FTE
NAT-TCR Hackleburg 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ukiah Center (Cauki) 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Stone Trucking Kiefer 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Plant 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Custom Building Products DALC 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial US, Others 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Impresa Aerospace 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moncure Plywood - WP 202 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: 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.