Bottle washers, packaging machinery, manufacturing · Michigan

A&B Packing Equipment, Inc.

Lawrence, MI · ~93 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A&B Packing Equipment, Inc. runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bottle washers, packaging machinery, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

A&B Packing Equipment, Inc.: 4.9 TCR = 148% of Bottle washers, packaging machinery, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A&B Packing Equipment, Inc. safety composite

A&B Packing Equipment, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2021→2024

A&B Packing Equipment, Inc. injury rate improved

A&B Packing Equipment, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.8 from 5.8 in 2021 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.8 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333993 · Lawrence, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 148% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #11/14
  • PHOTO D&W Fine Pack
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: D&W Fine Pack (0.0 TCR gap)

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A&B Packing Equipment, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows A&B Packing Equipment, Inc. averages 4.9 TCR (148% of the Bottle washers, packaging machinery, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

A&B Packing Equipment, Inc. TCR series: 2021=5.8 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where A&B Packing Equipment, Inc. falls in its industry

269 Bottle washers, packaging mach establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 14 Bottle washers, packaging mach employers in Michigan.

A&B Packing Equipment, Inc. (93 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 2.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate A&B Packing Equipment, Inc.
A&B Packing Equipment, Inc. (93 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 2.4

A&B Packing Equipment, Inc. has more employees than the Bottle washers, packaging machinery, man median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 4.0 2.0 4 0 0
2021 5.8 3.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333993 · MI · Lawrence

269 Bottle washers, packaging machinery, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 4 employers in Lawrence, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR D&W Fine Pack 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accu-Tec Dixie 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Korber Pharma Inc - Horace 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mossville 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trenton Channel Power Point 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Presque Isle Electric & Gas Coop 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michigan UCI 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE 13001 Merriman Rd., Livonia, MI 48150 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren/Cass District Health Department 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren County Road Commission 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Assured Plastics, inc. 38 FTE
NAT-TCR Dave's Cabinet Inc 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Air Lines - ATL Airport 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Edgewood Manor of Lucasville II 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DYY4 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Siskiyou County Government Center 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE CSC Atlanta 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Michael's Hospital Avera 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hormann Flexon 93 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.