Tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · Ohio

Westerman Inc. - Bremen

Bremen, OH · ~116 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Westerman Inc. - Bremen runs at 157% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Westerman Inc. - Bremen: 5.2 TCR = 157% of Tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Westerman Inc. - Bremen safety composite

Westerman Inc. - Bremen scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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 5.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

Westerman Inc. - Bremen held a steady TCR band

Westerman Inc. - Bremen's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.6 in 2017 to 3.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.6 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332420 · Bremen, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 157% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #17/23
  • PHOTO Crosno Construction,…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Crosno Construction, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Westerman Inc. - Bremen in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Westerman Inc. - Bremen averages 5.2 TCR (157% of the Tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Westerman Inc. - Bremen TCR series: 2017=3.6 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Westerman Inc. - Bremen falls in its industry

355 Tanks, heavy gauge metal, manu establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 23 Tanks, heavy gauge metal, manu employers in Ohio.

Westerman Inc. - Bremen (116 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Westerman Inc. - Bremen
Westerman Inc. - Bremen (116 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Westerman Inc. - Bremen has more employees than the Tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2021 3.8 0.8 5 0 0
2020 4.4 1.8 4 1 0
2019 7.4 3.0 10 0 0
2018 6.7 2.5 8 0 0
2017 3.6 1.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332420 · OH · Bremen

355 Tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 3 employers in Bremen, 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 Crosno Construction, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Service Machine 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Munich Welding 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ability Engineering Technology 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE AKRON - EASTWOOD SHOP 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shook Construction Co. - Brecksville 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Strawser Construction Inc. Construction Shop 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Xtreme Elements LLC 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westerman Inc 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maverick Environmental Equipment LLC - Bremen 22 FTE
NAT-TCR MJ MECHANICAL INC Headquarters 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Badger Building Center 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Able Electric Company, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Williams Company 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ambulance Transportation Inc 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri State Electric, Inc 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canterbury Nursing & Rehabiliation 116 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: 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.