Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · Michigan

Automation Guarding Systems

Sterling Heights, MI · ~50 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Automation Guarding Systems runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Automation Guarding Systems: 3.0 TCR = 89% of Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Automation Guarding Systems safety composite

Automation Guarding Systems scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

Automation Guarding Systems: 0.0 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2024

Automation Guarding Systems's TCR rose 5.4 from 0.0 in 2022 to 5.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Sterling Heights, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #16/53
  • PHOTO Tenere Metals Divisi…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tenere Metals Division Osceola (0.0 TCR gap)

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Automation Guarding Systems in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Automation Guarding Systems averages 3.0 TCR (89% of the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Automation Guarding Systems TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Automation Guarding Systems falls in its industry

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 53 Air cowls, sheet metal (except employers in Michigan.

Automation Guarding Systems (50 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Automation Guarding Systems
Automation Guarding Systems (50 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Automation Guarding Systems has fewer employees than the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 5.4 1.8 2 1 0
2023 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · MI · Sterling Heights

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 195 employers in Sterling Heights, 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 Tenere Metals Division Osceola 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southerntier Custom Fabricators, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metal Finishing Systems Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR George Koch Sons - Evansville 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Commonwealth Commerce Center 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gas Construction Midland 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-City Acoustical 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4066_7786 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Heights Assembly Plant 5,783 FTE
CITY-NEAR STERLING PLNT 2,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Stamping Plant 2,115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Conti, LLC 1,892 FTE
NAT-TCR Republic services Tower Landfill 5126 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kaiva Services, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Baptist Hospital East 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Trend Health & Rehab of Meridian 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heartfields at Frederick 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glenshaw 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Del Monte Meat Company 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atg - Chan 50 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. 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.