Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade · Ohio

Zion Industries - Valley City

Valley City, OH · ~46 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Zion Industries - Valley City runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade B.

Zion Industries - Valley City: 2.3 TCR = 71% of Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zion Industries - Valley City safety composite

Zion Industries - Valley City scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2021→2024

Zion Industries - Valley City injury rate improved

Zion Industries - Valley City's TCR fell 0.5 from 2.6 in 2021 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.6 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332811 · Valley City, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 71% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #9/34
  • PHOTO Bodycote Thermal Pro…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bodycote Thermal Processing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Zion Industries - Valley City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zion Industries - Valley City averages 2.3 TCR (71% of the Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Zion Industries - Valley City TCR series: 2021=2.6 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Zion Industries - Valley City falls in its industry

248 Hardening (i.e., heat treating establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 34 Hardening (i.e., heat treating employers in Ohio.

Zion Industries - Valley City (46 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Zion Industries - Valley City
Zion Industries - Valley City (46 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Zion Industries - Valley City has more employees than the Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals a median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2024 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2023 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2021 2.6 2.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332811 · OH · Valley City

248 Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 35 employers in Valley City, 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 Bodycote Thermal Processing 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORTH AMERICAN STAINLESS - GHENT 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Braddock Metallurgical-GA 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CPP - Steel Treaters 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Holthouse Farms of Ohio Inc 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Ohio Greenhouse Company 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willowbend Nurseries, LLC 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.W. Sauder Inc. 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR MTD Products Inc. Valley City Site 824 FTE
CITY-NEAR Superior Roll Forming LLC 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mack Industries Inc 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mack Concrete Industries, Inc 146 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Slu Bsc Marketplace 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Larry Brown Excavating 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Rhino Cable Services, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Matrix4 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE CA002MVM 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3403 - Denver Lowry 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Principal Park and Cub Club 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Adventist Tulare 46 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.