TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.4 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
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).
TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.4 avg TCR
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
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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.
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.
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.
Ohio's average TCR of 4.4 is lower than 89% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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.
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.
| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Composites Inc. Ohio | Sidney | Plastics resins, custom comp | B | 2.4 |
| Fallsway Equipment - Akron | Akron | Forklift repair and maintena | C | 2.4 |
| 2253-H4851 | Lima | General Medical and Surgical | B | 2.4 |
| Arkon | Akron | Synthetic Rubber Manufacturi | B | 2.4 |
| Taylor Warehouse- World Park | Cincinnati | General warehousing and stor | A | 2.4 |
| Main Office | Marietta | HVAC (heating, ventilation a | C | 2.4 |
| Transportation | Springfield | Refrigerated products trucki | B | 2.4 |
| Carriage House | Norwalk | - | B | 2.4 |
| Richard E. Jacobs Health Center | Avon | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 2.4 |
| CIMA Plastics Group | Twinsburg | Hardware, plastics, manufact | B | 2.4 |
| Advanced Glass Systems LLC | Plain City | Curtain wall, glass, install | C | 2.4 |
| Mid-City Electric/Technologies | Columbus | Electrical contractors | C | 2.4 |
| Russell Products Home | Akron | Anodizing metals and metal p | B | 2.3 |
| Giant Eagle #4096 | Stow | Grocery stores | B | 2.3 |
| The Sanctuary at Wilmington Place | Dayton | Nursing homes | A | 2.3 |
| YKK AP America - Cincinnati, Ohio Facility | West Chester | Frames, door and window, met | B | 2.3 |
| SpringDot Inc | Cincinnati | Offset printing (except book | B | 2.3 |
| London OH | London | John Deere Equipment Dealer | C | 2.3 |
| 148 - SR 32 Eastgate | Cincinnati | Retail | B | 2.3 |
| Vancrest of Payne | Payne | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 2.3 |
| Zion Industries - Valley City | Valley City | Hardening (i.e., heat treati | B | 2.3 |
| Wayne Dalton | Mt. Hope | Manufacturer of metal doors, | B | 2.3 |
| The Inn at University Village | Massillon | Assisted-living facilities w | B | 2.3 |
| Sauder Manufacturing Co - Stryker | Stryker | Institutional furniture manu | B | 2.3 |
| Cincinnati Ohio, Kroger CFT Office | Cincinnati | Druggists' sundries merchant | C | 2.3 |
| Eramet | Marietta | Electrometallurgical ferroal | B | 2.3 |
| Carter Lumber 214 | Columbus Grove | BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER | B | 2.3 |
| 0269 Lowe S of New Philadelphia Oh | New Philadelphia | Homecenter | B | 2.3 |
| Marc Glassman Inc 57MS | Madison | Grocery store | B | 2.3 |
| Goodwill Industries of Erie, Huron, Ottawa and Sandusky Counties | Sandusky | Bed stores, retail | B | 2.3 |
| Ashley Homestore - Boardman | Youngstown | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | B | 2.3 |
| AES Main | Akron | Steam production and distrib | D | 2.3 |
| Interdesign, Inc 3 | Glenwillow | Homefurnishings stores | B | 2.3 |
| A.R.E. Logistics | Massillon | Trucking, general freight, l | B | 2.3 |
| Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH | Lancaster | Breakfast cereals manufactur | B | 2.3 |
| Traxium LLC | Stow | Offset printing (except book | B | 2.3 |
| Burrows - Franklin | Franklin | Molded pulp products (e.g., | B | 2.3 |
| Hartville, Oh | Hartville | Other Direct Selling Establi | B | 2.3 |
| Troyer Bros Trucking | Millersburg | General freight trucking, lo | B | 2.3 |
| Southwire Company Avon Lake | Avon Lake | Instrument Manufacturing for | B | 2.3 |
| Jones-Hamilton Company | Walbridge | Sodium inorganic compounds, | B | 2.3 |
| Giant Eagle #1284 | Avon Lake | Grocery stores | B | 2.3 |
| Hunter's Manufacturing Co. Inc. | Mogadore | Archery equipment manufactur | B | 2.3 |
| Rhinegeist Brewery | Cincinnati | Breweries | B | 2.3 |
| 182581 | Kent | Landscaping Services | B | 2.3 |
| R22 Cincinnati OH | Goshen | Fuel Dealers | B | 2.3 |
| Clean Team, Inc. | Holland | Janitorial services | B | 2.3 |
| Atlas Roofing Shingle Plant | Franklin | Shingles made from purchased | B | 2.3 |
| 016-00587 | Columbus | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 2.3 |
| Atlas Copco Power Technique NA Customer Service Center - Broadview Heights OH | Broadview Heights | Air compressors manufacturin | B | 2.3 |
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.
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (4.4 here).
Nearest states by reporting employer count (22,650 here).
Look up a Ohio employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.