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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9745-Vallen Distribution Inc-000921_us_s0561 | Monroe | Industrial Supplies Merchant | C | 2.1 |
| Johnson Bros. - West Salem, Inc. | Greenwich | Gasket, Packing, and Sealing | B | 2.1 |
| Ohio Edison Company | Youngstown | Distribution of electric pow | D | 2.1 |
| Branch 50 | New Albany | Hardware Merchant Wholesales | C | 2.1 |
| Big Lots Store #1118 MIAMISBURG, OH | Miamisburg | Retail Other | B | 2.1 |
| Big Lots Store #1969 Ashtabula, OH | Ashtabula | Retail Other | B | 2.1 |
| 1915-2155 | Middletown | General Warehouse and Storag | A | 2.1 |
| Hudson Elms | Hudson | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 2.1 |
| Kando of Cincinnati Inc | Lebanon | Heat Treating | B | 2.1 |
| WILLIAMS DISTRIBUTING CO.-Toledo | Toledo | Cabinets, kitchen, free stan | C | 2.1 |
| Fast Track It - School Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio | Cincinnati | General merchandise, durable | C | 2.1 |
| ViaQuest Residential Services - Cincinnati | Cincinnati | Group homes, intellectual an | B | 2.1 |
| FedEx Supply Chain - MGH Ashland | Ashland | General warehousing and stor | A | 2.1 |
| Gurney & Henry Fields Fulfillment Center | Lewisburg | Nursery and garden centers w | B | 2.1 |
| Hycomp | Middleburg Heights | Bushings, plastics, manufact | B | 2.1 |
| 356 Collins | Orrville | Safes, metal, manufacturing | B | 2.1 |
| Amcor Napolean | Napolean | Bottles, plastics, manufactu | B | 2.1 |
| Conesville Plant | Conesville | Electric power generation, f | D | 2.1 |
| Blossom Hill Care Center | Huntsberg | Nursing homes | A | 2.1 |
| Genoa Middle School - Wcs | Westerville | Academies, elementary or sec | D | 2.1 |
| Millington | Cincinnati | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | B | 2.1 |
| Standard Aero | Hillsboro | Aircraft engine and engine p | B | 2.1 |
| Cincinnati Sub-Zero Products LLC | Cincinnati | Filters, industrial and gene | B | 2.1 |
| Premier Building Solutions, Inc. | Massillon | Adhesives (except asphalt, d | B | 2.1 |
| Giant Eagle #3383 | Chardon | Gasoline stations with conve | B | 2.1 |
| R & R Truck Sales, Inc. | Akron | Light utility truck dealers, | B | 2.1 |
| Columbus McKinnon Corporation (Lisbon, Ohio) | Lisbon | Cranes, industrial, merchant | C | 2.1 |
| Wingate Packaging | Washington Court House | Boxes, folding (except corru | B | 2.1 |
| Esmet Inc | Canton | Aircraft hardware, metal, ma | B | 2.1 |
| Brinkman Tool & Die, Inc | Dayton | Cutting dies, metalworking, | B | 2.1 |
| Lincoln Electric Automation Coldwater | Coldwater | Arc welding equipment manufa | B | 2.1 |
| 02 - Dayton | Vandalia | Industrial Launderers | C | 2.1 |
| Toledo Transmission Operations | Toledo | Automatic transmissions, aut | A | 2.1 |
| Progressive Stamping, Inc. | Ottoville | Job stampings, automotive, m | A | 2.1 |
| Susco LLC | Lowellville | Compressor, metering and pum | B | 2.1 |
| Printing Service Company | Miamisburg | Printing, lithographic (exce | B | 2.1 |
| Cincinnati Museum center | Cincinnati | Museum | B | 2.1 |
| ACA-Ohio | Upper Sandusky | Polyurethane foam products m | B | 2.1 |
| Edgewood Manor of Greenfield | Greenfield | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 2.1 |
| Presrite Technical Division | Eastlake | Forgings made from purchased | B | 2.1 |
| Westerville Medical Center | Westerville | Medical doctors' (MDs, excep | B | 2.1 |
| OH - American Standard | Groveport | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 2.1 |
| David A Flynn Inc | Columbiana | Automobile dealers, new only | B | 2.1 |
| MK TREMPE CORP dba | Sidney | Pallet parts, metal, manufac | B | 2.1 |
| Smithfield BioScience Fresh | Sharonville | Pharmaceutical preparations | B | 2.1 |
| GKN Sinter Metal - Gallipolis | Gallipolis | Powder metallurgy products m | B | 2.1 |
| Mark Wahlberg Chevrolet of Worthington | Columbus | Automobile dealers, new only | B | 2.1 |
| Worly Plumbing Supply, Inc - Columbus | Columbus | Plumbing equipment merchant | C | 2.1 |
| Courtyard by Marriott Columbus Grove City | Grove City | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 2.1 |
| Strongsville Family Health & Surgery Center | Strongsville | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 2.1 |
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.