Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing · Ohio

Wooster, OH

Wooster, OH · ~80 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wooster, OH runs at 212% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Wooster, OH: 7.0 TCR = 212% of Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wooster, OH safety composite

Wooster, OH scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

Wooster, OH: 3.0 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.23× in 2024

Wooster, OH's TCR rose 5.6 from 3.0 in 2020 to 8.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332439 · Wooster, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 212% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #19/21
  • PHOTO Durham Manufacturing
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Durham Manufacturing (0.2 TCR gap)

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Wooster, OH in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wooster, OH averages 7.0 TCR (212% of the Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wooster, OH TCR series: 2020=3 · 2022=3 · 2023=13.3 · 2024=8.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Wooster, OH falls in its industry

175 Containers, light gauge metal establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 21 Containers, light gauge metal employers in Ohio.

Wooster, OH (80 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Wooster, OH
Wooster, OH (80 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Wooster, OH has more employees than the Containers, light gauge metal (except ca median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 8.7 1.6 11 0 0
2023 13.3 3.1 17 0 0
2022 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2020 3.0 3.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332439 · OH · Wooster

175 Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), 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 Durham Manufacturing 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wastequip Albany 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 4- Lake Air 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accurate Metal Fabricating Cicero 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gilbane Building Company Cleveland 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE RRSC Dayton 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA OH Brecksville 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mike Baumann Plumbing, Inc. 80 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 Nijiya Market - SM 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR E.A. Knight Construction, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Building Products JoyFarm 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Country Club of Virginia-JR 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1123-Courtyard Chicago 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yampa Valley Electric Association 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zeeland Farm Services, Inc 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kairos Power South West 80 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, 2020. 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.