State profile · OSHA ITA
Ohio workplace safety
How 22,650 OSHA-reporting employers across Ohio compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 22,650
- Employers
- 4.4
- Avg TCR
- 387,843
- Injuries
- 248
- Fatalities
The state picture
Ohio's 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 · per 100 workers
- 22,650
- employers reporting
- 387,843
- recordable injuries
- 248
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
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.
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, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
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 307 of 453| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LectraHeat, LTD | Lebanon | Sheet metal work (except sta | B | 1.7 |
| Automatic Feed Co. | Napoleon | Coil winding and cutting mac | B | 1.7 |
| 1236 - Polaris | Columbus | Discount Department Stores | A | 1.7 |
| Milacron Mt. Orab | Mount Orab | Plastics working machinery m | B | 1.7 |
| Mercury Plastics | Middlefield | Tube, nonrigid plastics, man | B | 1.7 |
| Radial Inc - Groveport | Columbus | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.7 |
| Canal Winchester - 6200 Winchester Boulevard | Canal Winchester | Motor Freight Transportation | A | 1.7 |
| Construction | Tallmadge | Bridge construction | B | 1.7 |
| Judson | Cleveland | Continuing care retirement c | A | 1.7 |
| Worthington Steel Cleveland | Cuyahoga Heights | Rolled Steel Shape Manufactu | B | 1.7 |
| Merc Acquisitions, Inc. | Twinsburg | Sewing machines, household-t | B | 1.7 |
| D20 Toledo | Holland | Vertical Transportation Comp | B | 1.7 |
| Pride One | Medina | Commercial building construc | B | 1.7 |
| Knight Materials Technologies | Canton | Bricks, clay refractory, man | B | 1.7 |
| Vandalia/Tipp City | Tipp City | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.7 |
| 253 - Franklin Park | Toledo | - | A | 1.7 |
| 4186-03388 | Cincinnati | All Other General Merchandis | A | 1.7 |
| Mahoning | Youngstown | School bus services | A | 1.7 |
| Dayton Precision Services | Dayton | Heat treating metals and met | B | 1.7 |
| 438 McCormick Blvd | Columbus | Plumbing and Heating Equipme | B | 1.7 |
| Mid City Electric Company | Westerville | Electric contracting | B | 1.7 |
| Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC Region 661 | Massillon | Arborist services | A | 1.7 |
| Matrix5 Site Development | Miamisburg | Construction management, wat | B | 1.7 |
| North Gateway Tire Co. | Seville | Motor vehicle tire and tube | B | 1.7 |
| Crescent Park Corporation | West Chester | Warehouse clubs (i.e., food | A | 1.7 |
| Giant Eagle #3086 | Strongsville | Gasoline stations with conve | A | 1.7 |
| Meadow View Growers, Inc | New Carlisle | Flower growing | A | 1.7 |
| American Environmental Group | Richfield | Artificial turf installation | B | 1.7 |
| Merrill Corporation Grove City | Grove City | Warehousing and storage, gen | A | 1.7 |
| Mid's | Navarre | Spaghetti sauce canning | B | 1.7 |
| Peck Hannaford + Briggs Company | Cincinnati | Mechanical contractors | B | 1.7 |
| Vcf 025 | Springdale | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | A | 1.7 |
| Giant Eagle #0220 | Amherst | Grocery stores | A | 1.7 |
| Giant Eagle #4029 | Akron | Grocery stores | A | 1.7 |
| Janitorial Management Services | Sidney | Janitorial services | A | 1.7 |
| Buckeye Exterminating Inc. | Ottoville | Exterminating services | A | 1.7 |
| Pearl | Youngstown | Workshops for persons with d | A | 1.7 |
| West Chester | West Chester | Housewares, gas and electric | B | 1.7 |
| 234 - Grove City OH | Grove City | Retail | A | 1.7 |
| Big Sandy Superstore (01) | Lancaster | Furniture and appliance stor | A | 1.7 |
| Clark Reliance | Strongsville | Boiler controls, industrial, | B | 1.7 |
| Tiffin OH | Tiffin | John Deere Equipment Dealer | B | 1.7 |
| Dugan & Meyers LLC | Monroe | Footing and foundation concr | B | 1.7 |
| deSter | Lima | Bags, paper and disposable p | B | 1.7 |
| Pile Dynamics, Inc. | Solon | Diagnostic equipment, electr | B | 1.7 |
| Absolute Rehabilitation & Consulting Services, Inc. | North Canton | Physical therapy offices (e. | A | 1.7 |
| Oh700 - Columbus Bi | Columbus | Couriers and Express Deliver | A | 1.7 |
| 25320102 Akron, Oh | Akron | Warehouse Club and Supercent | A | 1.7 |
| Ohio Valley Stow | Stow | Drywall and related building | B | 1.7 |
| FST Logistics GC1 | Grove City | Public warehousing and stora | A | 1.7 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Ohio's safety record means for you
Ohio averages a TCR of 4.4 - about 1.6× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
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.