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
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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.
- 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 59 of 453| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckeye Polymers, Inc | Lodi | Custom compounding (i.e., bl | F | 7.5 |
| Transglobal Door | Carey | Truck trailer manufacturing | F | 7.5 |
| Columbus Center for Human Services, Inc. | Columbus | Intellectual and development | D | 7.5 |
| Appian Manufacturing Corp | Columbus | Wrought iron or steel pipe a | F | 7.5 |
| CWRU Plum Market | Cleveland | - | F | 7.5 |
| Howlett Logistics LLC | Canfield | Delivery service (except as | D | 7.5 |
| USA Precast Concrete | Canal Fulton | Architectural wall panels, p | F | 7.5 |
| Edora Logistics | Vandalia | Delivery service (except as | D | 7.5 |
| Cardinal Place | Cambridge | CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT C | D | 7.5 |
| Dayton Walls and Ceilings, Inc. | Dayton | Drywall contractors | F | 7.5 |
| HDS-Columbus | Columbus | General freight trucking, lo | D | 7.5 |
| J.C. Whitlam Manufacturing Company | Wadsworth | Pipe sealing compounds manuf | F | 7.5 |
| Sack and Save - 725 Richmond Avenue | Marion | Supermarkets | F | 7.5 |
| Stagnaro Distributing LLC | Cincinnati | Beverages, alcoholic (except | F | 7.5 |
| Allied Window | Cincinnati | Louver windows, metal, manuf | F | 7.5 |
| 400257500 Kent City Sd | Kent | Food Services | F | 7.5 |
| R. L. Lipton Distributing Co. | Cleveland | Alcoholic beverages, wine an | F | 7.5 |
| Devon Oaks | Westlake | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 7.5 |
| Ohcge - Cincinnati | Cincinnati | Couriers and Express Deliver | C | 7.5 |
| RK-064-Fremont ( RK-064 ) | Fremont | Farm Supply Store | F | 7.5 |
| Nickles-Lima Plant | Lima | Commercial bakeries | F | 7.5 |
| Select Specialty Hospital - Columbus East | Columbus | Hospitals, specialty (except | D | 7.5 |
| Ottawa Foods Facility | Ottawa | Canning fruits and vegetable | F | 7.5 |
| Ralph J. Stolle Countryside YMCA | Lebanon | Fitness and Recreational spo | F | 7.5 |
| NAPA Carrollton | Carrollton | Automotive parts and supply | F | 7.5 |
| Twilight Gardens | Norwalk | Nursing homes | C | 7.5 |
| Mikesell's Potato Chip Co | Dayton | Cheese curls and puffs manuf | D | 7.5 |
| 218 Cleveland | Richfield | Freight Trucking LTL | D | 7.5 |
| West Park | Cinncinnati | Nursing homes | C | 7.5 |
| Healthsouth of Cincinnati | Cincinnati45216 | Rehabilitation hospitals (ex | D | 7.5 |
| Unverferth Manufacturing- Delphos Division | Delphos | Harvesting machinery and equ | F | 7.5 |
| The Enclave of Springboro | Springboro | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 7.5 |
| Holiday City Dc Bldg 321 - 3339 | Holiday City | General Warehousing and Stor | D | 7.5 |
| FedEx 2424 CITY GATE DRIVE | Columbus | Courier and Express Delivery | C | 7.5 |
| Toledo Mud Hens** | Toledo | Food Service | F | 7.5 |
| 2807-1585 | Cincinnati | Homecenter | F | 7.5 |
| 381695-Cle-Strongsville Br | Strongsville | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.5 |
| Clarke Power Services, Inc. | Cincinnati | Automotive engine repair and | F | 7.5 |
| PP1 - Dayton | Dayton | Produce, fresh, merchant who | F | 7.5 |
| 1252 - Dayton South | Dayton | Discount Department Stores | F | 7.5 |
| Bellevue Care Center | Bellevue | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 7.5 |
| Advanced Polymer Coatings | Avon | Epoxy coatings made from pur | F | 7.5 |
| Haas Door Company Wauseon | Wauseon | Garage doors, metal, manufac | F | 7.5 |
| Parma Metal Center | Parma | Stamping metal motor vehicle | D | 7.5 |
| Columbus Ohio Terminal | Hebron | Bulk mail truck transportati | D | 7.5 |
| Gioia Concrete Construction Inc. | Marengo | Foundation, building, poured | F | 7.5 |
| Malone University** | Canton | Food Service | F | 7.5 |
| RK-058-Gallipolis ( RK-058 ) | Gallipolis | Farm Supply Store | F | 7.5 |
| Akron Zoo | Akron | Animal exhibits, live | F | 7.5 |
| Carolina Color Corporation- Ohio | Delaware | Bags, plastics film, single | F | 7.5 |
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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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.