Joints, universal, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Michigan

American Axle World Headquarter

Detroit, MI · ~511 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Axle World Headquarter runs at 3% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Joints, universal, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

American Axle World Headquarter: 0.2 TCR = 3% of Joints, universal, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Axle World Headquarter safety composite

American Axle World Headquarter scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

American Axle World Headquarter held a steady TCR band

American Axle World Headquarter's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.2 in 2023 to 0.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.2 · 2024=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336350 · Detroit, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 3% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/61
  • PHOTO Driveline Systems En…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~511 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Driveline Systems Engineering (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Axle World Headquarter in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Axle World Headquarter averages 0.2 TCR (3% of the Joints, universal, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

American Axle World Headquarter TCR series: 2023=0.2 · 2024=0.2 · BLS 5.4

Where American Axle World Headquarter falls in its industry

320 Joints, universal, automotive, establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 61 Joints, universal, automotive, employers in Michigan.

American Axle World Headquarter (511 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate American Axle World Headquarter
American Axle World Headquarter (511 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

American Axle World Headquarter has more employees than the Joints, universal, automotive, truck, an median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 0.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.2 0.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336350 · MI · Detroit

320 Joints, universal, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 673 employers in Detroit, 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 Driveline Systems Engineering 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR TRW Automotive-FH01 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solero Technologies 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warren Facility 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Faurecia Fraser 510 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allen Road Center 510 FTE
STATE-SIZE Community Health Center of Branch County 512 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yanfeng Grand Rapids 509 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Hospital 8,838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Detroit Campus 8,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - DTW 6,640 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Corporation 5,241 FTE
NAT-TCR Sanofi Genzyme 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Wiltew, Inc 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Stevenson Crane Service Inc. 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nevada Corp Office-PYT 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE American Woodmark Corporation 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flower Mound TX 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nikola Corporation 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE Philips Medical Systems 511 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.