TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.4 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Ohio workplace safety
How 22,650 OSHA-reporting employers across Ohio compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 19,713 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 22,650
- Employers
- 4.4
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 387,843
- Injuries (all)
- 248
- Fatalities (all)
Ohio vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
22,650 6th of 54 higher than 48 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Ohio's 19,713 rated reporting employers average 4.4 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.6 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 4.4
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 19,713
- rated employers
- 22,650
- all reporting employers
- 387,843
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 22,650 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 20% B · 16% C · 30% D · 19% F · 16%
16% of Ohio's reporting establishments earn an F and 20% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Ohio ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCROhio's average TCR of 4.4 is lower than 89% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Ohio is #7 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 19,713-employer subset), it's #18 of 54, a 11-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things on the same population and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How Ohio Workplaces Compare
Ohio hosts 22,650 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Ohio cohort, workers have logged 387,843 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 19,713 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
The state has recorded 248 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Ohio, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Ohio, by injury rate
Page 214 of 453| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Durable Corp | Norwalk | Mattresses, air, rubber, man | C | 3.1 |
| Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc | Mason | Machine shops | C | 3.1 |
| Alkon | Fremont | Textile cutting services | C | 3.1 |
| Valley Interior Systems | Cincinnati | Carpentry, framing | C | 3.1 |
| 633 Building | Salem | Assembly machines manufactur | C | 3.1 |
| Insource Technologies | Paulding | Amplifiers, magnetic, pulse, | C | 3.1 |
| Essity Operations Wausau, LLC. | Middletown | Paper towels made in paper m | C | 3.1 |
| Big Lots Store #1 COLUMBUS, OH | Columbus | Retail Other | C | 3.1 |
| TMX2165 | Groveport | EXTERMINATING AND PEST CONTR | B | 3.1 |
| 7012 | Washington Court Ho | Refrigerated Warehousing and | B | 3.1 |
| Holiday Inn Boardman | Boardman | Hotels (except casino hotels | C | 3.1 |
| 42431h - Maumee Oh Dc | Maumee | Confectionery Merchant Whole | D | 3.1 |
| Holmes Manufacturing - Killbuck | Killbuck | Custom roll forming metal pr | C | 3.1 |
| Berry Plastics Corporation | Aurora | Film, plastics (except packa | C | 3.1 |
| Ohccav-Opi-Columbus-Cleveland Ave | Columbus | PLASMA COLLECTION | C | 3.1 |
| Nanogate Jay Systems LLC | Mansfield | Balloons, plastics, manufact | C | 3.1 |
| Lakefront Lines Cleveland | Brookpark | Charter bus services (except | B | 3.1 |
| 2248-63079 | Columbus | Assisted Living | C | 3.1 |
| Crane Pumps & Systems Piqua | Piqua | Pumps, industrial and commer | C | 3.1 |
| Canton | North Canton | Garden centers | C | 3.1 |
| NX Automotive Logistics USA, Inc. (MAP) | Marysville | General warehousing and stor | B | 3.1 |
| Farris Enterprises, Inc. | Worthington | Commercial building construc | C | 3.1 |
| Signode Angleboard Loveland | Loveland | Pulp manufacturing (made fro | C | 3.1 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC - HCM1 | Lockbourne | Couriers and Express Deliver | A | 3.1 |
| Evans Food Group, LTD | Portsmouth | Pork rinds manufacturing | B | 3.1 |
| First Class Transport, Inc. | Strasburg | Bulk liquids trucking, long- | B | 3.1 |
| Carrier Sections_1436932 | Cleveland | Mail and Parcel Delivery | B | 3.1 |
| Area Energy & Electric, Inc. Columbus | Columbus | Low voltage electrical work | C | 3.1 |
| 104 - Hilliard/Rome Rd Columbus | Columbus | - | C | 3.1 |
| P&G Cincinnati GO | Cincinnati | - | C | 3.1 |
| Blossom Nursing & Rehabilitation | Salem | Convalescent homes or conval | A | 3.1 |
| Genacross Wolfcreek Campus | Holland | Nursing homes | A | 3.1 |
| 6317 | Canton | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.1 |
| NovaVision, Inc. | Bowling Green | Print shops, flexographic (e | C | 3.1 |
| Architectural Systems Inc. | Plain City | Low slope roofing installati | C | 3.1 |
| Edwards/Mooney & Moses #311 | Columbus | Insulation contractors | C | 3.1 |
| Ball Metalpack - Columbus, OH | Columbus | Steel cans, light gauge meta | C | 3.1 |
| 103 | Dayton | Superstores (i.e., food and | C | 3.1 |
| PVS Plastics Technology Corp. | Huber Heights | Awnings, rigid plastics or f | C | 3.1 |
| Navarre Industries Inc | Navarre | Frames, door and window, met | C | 3.1 |
| Canton Operations | North Canton | Sheet metal forming machines | C | 3.1 |
| Health Recovery Services, Inc. Bassett House | Athens | Drug addiction rehabilitatio | C | 3.1 |
| ITW SAP - Bedford Wire | Bedford Heights | Drawing iron or steel wire f | C | 3.1 |
| Kowalski Heat Treating Company | Cleveland | Hardening (i.e., heat treati | C | 3.1 |
| Polaris Boardman | Boardman | Windows and window frames, v | C | 3.1 |
| Environment Control of Beachwood, Inc. | Twinsburg | Building cleaning services, | B | 3.1 |
| Cleveland, Oh Branch | Cuyahoga Heights | Vending Machine Operators | C | 3.1 |
| Kaplan Industries Inc | Harrison | Art goods merchant wholesale | D | 3.1 |
| Progressive Foam Technologies Inc. | Gnadenhutten | Manufacturing building const | C | 3.1 |
| Kosei St. Marys Corporation | St. Marys | Wheels (i.e., rims), automot | B | 3.1 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Ohio: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (4.4 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (22,650 here).
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.