Paintbrushes manufacturing · Ohio

Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2

Wooster, OH · ~37 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2 runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Paintbrushes manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2: 5.9 TCR = 179% of Paintbrushes manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2 safety composite

Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−15.3

2016→2023

Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2 injury rate improved

Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2's TCR fell 15.3 from 19.3 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 19.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=19.3 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=7.7 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=7.0 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339994 · Wooster, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 179% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Sanderson MacLeod, I…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sanderson MacLeod, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2 averages 5.9 TCR (179% of the Paintbrushes manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2 TCR series: 2016=19.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=7.7 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=7 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2 falls in its industry

47 Paintbrushes manufacturing establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Paintbrushes manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2 (37 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 119 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2
Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2 (37 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 119 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2 has fewer employees than the Paintbrushes manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 4.5 2.3 2 0 0
2021 7.0 7.0 3 0 0
2020 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2019 7.7 2.6 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 19.3 19.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339994 · OH · Wooster

47 Paintbrushes manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 133 employers in Wooster, 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 Sanderson MacLeod, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR E. Gornell & Sons, LLC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LINZER PRODUCTS CORP 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Felton Incorporated 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Biosecurity Building 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus SW Svc Ctr 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lead Building Company LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unified Restoration Systems, LLC 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scaheffler Transmissions LLC 1,907 FTE
CITY-NEAR LuK USA LLC 1,814 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schaeffler Transmission LLC 1,662 FTE
CITY-NEAR College of Wooster 771 FTE
NAT-TCR Lonesome Pine Hospital 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 41 Rogers 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Mary's Health 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Promise House Hiawatha Inc 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eagan Clinic 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tec 88 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Theisen's of Iowa Falls 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Theisen's of Pella 37 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.