Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade · Michigan

Airlane South

Kentwood, MI · ~57 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Airlane South runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

Airlane South: 6.0 TCR = 182% of Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Airlane South safety composite

Airlane South scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Airlane South: 8.7 → 11.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 12.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Airlane South's TCR rose 2.6 from 8.7 in 2016 to 11.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Kentwood, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 182% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #31/48
  • PHOTO Power Engineering Co…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Power Engineering Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Airlane South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Airlane South averages 6.0 TCR (182% of the Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Airlane South TCR series: 2016=8.7 · 2017=7.6 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=5 · 2022=0 · 2023=12.6 · 2024=11.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Airlane South falls in its industry

585 Electroplating metals and form establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 48 Electroplating metals and form employers in Michigan.

Airlane South (57 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Airlane South
Airlane South (57 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Airlane South has more employees than the Electroplating metals and formed product median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 11.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 12.6 6.3 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.0 5.0 1 0 0
2020 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2019 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2018 3.3 1.1 3 0 0
2017 7.6 5.7 7 1 0
2016 8.7 7.9 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · MI · Kentwood

585 Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 122 employers in Kentwood, 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 Power Engineering Company 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Surface Finishing 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alco Cad Nickel Plating Corp 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR EC PLATING, INC. 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bloomingdale MI Facility 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville SC 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dickinson Homes 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concraft Inc 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ventra Grand Rapids Plant 5 1,274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1 656 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Food Solutions H5 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trees LLC 484 346 FTE
NAT-TCR Hernando Region 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Global Custom Decorating 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR McDonald Company, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kerr Lakeside Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE PGP Evansville 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pond Hill Elementary School 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arvada Store 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florida Division 57 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.