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 337 of 453| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RHC Logistics Ohio - Sz15 | Fostoria | Private warehousing and stor | A | 1.3 |
| A. Schulman Inc, Akron | Akron | Custom compounding (i.e., bl | A | 1.3 |
| OCLCA1 | Cleveland | Social Service community ser | A | 1.3 |
| Terry Henricks Ford | Archbold | Light utility truck dealers, | A | 1.3 |
| OH - Accell | Pataskala | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 1.3 |
| RCS Construction | Celina | Housing, single-family, cons | A | 1.3 |
| DuBois Chemicals (Sharonville) | Cincinnati | Presoaks manufacturing | A | 1.3 |
| Cimcool Industrial Products LLC | Cincinnati | Tint and dye preparations, h | A | 1.3 |
| Fisher Auto Parts - KOICHM | Cincinnati | Automobile accessories (exce | B | 1.3 |
| 5858 | North Randall | Grocery Stores | A | 1.3 |
| Guest Supply LLC - Grove City, OH | Grove City | Druggists' sundries merchant | B | 1.3 |
| CBT Springboro | Springboro | Industrial controls, electri | B | 1.3 |
| Kendall Holdings | Columbus | Bends, pipe, made from purch | A | 1.3 |
| Dublin AC | Dublin | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 1.3 |
| Columbus Moxy | Columbus | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 1.3 |
| Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division | Wooster | Freezing equipment, industri | A | 1.3 |
| Grove City location | Grove City | Machine shops | A | 1.3 |
| Xenia - Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. / FFE Transportation | Xenia | General Freight Trucking, Lo | A | 1.3 |
| Kao USA (PU) | Hamilton | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.3 |
| Robin Industries Fredericksburg | Fredericksburg | Balloons, rubber, manufactur | A | 1.3 |
| R & J Trucking Marietta Terminal | Marietta | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.3 |
| ATC Cincinati | West Chester | Actuators, fluid power, manu | A | 1.3 |
| Abrasive Technology - Lewis Center | Lewis Center | Electroplating metals and fo | A | 1.3 |
| TTM Technologies | North Jackson | Circuit boards, printed, bar | A | 1.3 |
| Stellar Care Center | Woodsfield | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 1.3 |
| Main | Cleveland | Tile adhesives manufacturing | A | 1.3 |
| 1168 Hilliard | Hilliard | Department Store | A | 1.3 |
| Taft Museum of Art | Cincinnati | Museum | A | 1.3 |
| Chem Tech | Middlefield | Rubber processing preparatio | A | 1.3 |
| PEP : LSMD - Vienna | Vienna | - | B | 1.3 |
| The Ultra-met Company | Urbana | Rockets, ammunition (except | A | 1.3 |
| Northwestern Tools Inc | Kettering | Cutting dies, metalworking, | A | 1.3 |
| Witmer's Feed & Grain Inc | Columbiana | Animal feed mills (except do | A | 1.3 |
| BASF Corporation Greenville, OH | Greenville, Oh | Acrylic resins manufacturing | A | 1.3 |
| Ohcls - Columbus | Columbus | General Freight Trucking, Lo | A | 1.3 |
| Automation Solutions/Controls/Systems Integrator | Willoughby | Control equipment, electric, | A | 1.3 |
| Lake Erie Electric - Cleveland Division | Westlake | Electrical contractors | A | 1.3 |
| Flavor Producers - Sharonville, OH | Saharonville | Syrup, flavoring (except cof | A | 1.3 |
| Brook Park Warehouses | Brook Park | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.3 |
| Trexler | Ravenna | Acrylate rubber manufacturin | A | 1.3 |
| 866 Springdale, Oh | Springdale | Family Clothing Stores | A | 1.3 |
| QSI Versailles | Versailles | Building cleaning services, | A | 1.3 |
| Autoliv Nissin Brake America | Findlay | Air brake systems and parts, | A | 1.3 |
| Kessler Marketing Group, Inc. | Youngstown | Badges, plastics, manufactur | A | 1.3 |
| ISS America | Bellefontaine | Automotive parts, new, merch | B | 1.3 |
| 325 Petro North Baltimore | North Baltimore | Truck stops | A | 1.3 |
| Redwood Living Corporate Offices | Independence | Apartment managers' offices | C | 1.3 |
| Unit # 1323 | North Olmsted | Retail | A | 1.3 |
| JIS at Potash Corporation Lima | Lima | Petrochemical plant construc | A | 1.3 |
| Glatfelter -Chillicothe | Chillicothe | Paper mills (except newsprin | A | 1.3 |
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.