Wooster Brush Co. - Main Plant
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WOOSTER, OH | Paintbrushes manufacturing
~578 avg employees | 9 years of OSHA data
Wooster Brush Co. - Main Plant has an average TCR of 5.2, which is 157% of the industry average (3.3) for Paintbrushes manufacturing. This is worse than average.
Safety Insights for Wooster Brush Co. - Main Plant
Wooster Brush Co. - Main Plant operates an establishment with approximately 578 full-time equivalent workers in WOOSTER, OH, classified under the Paintbrushes manufacturing industry (NAICS 339994). Across 9 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 243 recordable injuries, 14 occupational illnesses, and 0 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.2 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the D letter grade (Poor Safety Record).
Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 3.3 for Paintbrushes manufacturing, Wooster Brush Co. - Main Plant's workforce experiences 157% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR above the benchmark flags a higher-than-typical risk profile for jobseekers, insurers, and enforcement agencies to examine.
Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 9 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating Wooster Brush Co. - Main Plant as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 0, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Wooster Brush Co. - Main Plant's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source — name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor — OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 339994 — Paintbrushes manufacturing.
DART Rate — Transparent Calculation (2024)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
17 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 1,004,853 hours worked = 3.38 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Wooster Brush Co. - Main Plant (this establishment) | 5.18 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 9-year avg |
| Toothbrushes (except electric) manufacturing industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 339994 |
| Ohio state avg (all industries) | 31.77 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics — Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Wooster Brush Co. - Main Plant to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 24 reportable incidents · 24 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 20 reportable incidents · 19 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 23 reportable incidents · 22 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 29 reportable incidents · 24 injuries, 5 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 25 reportable incidents · 25 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 22 reportable incidents · 20 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 29 reportable incidents · 29 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 43 reportable incidents · 41 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 42 reportable incidents · 39 injuries, 3 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) — inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.8 | 3.4 | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 3.9 | 1.9 | 19 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 4.3 | 3.2 | 22 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 5.0 | 4.3 | 24 | 5 | 0 |
| 2020 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 20 | 2 | 0 |
| 2018 | 4.5 | 2.9 | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 7.8 | 4.7 | 41 | 2 | 0 |
| 2016 | 8.1 | 5.2 | 39 | 3 | 0 |
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