Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing · Michigan

Barnes Industries

Madison Heights, MI · ~39 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Barnes Industries runs at 340% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Barnes Industries: 11.2 TCR = 340% of Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barnes Industries safety composite

Barnes Industries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Barnes Industries: 2.3 → 16.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 21.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2022

Barnes Industries's TCR rose 13.9 from 2.3 in 2016 to 16.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 21.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333613 · Madison Heights, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.2 · 340% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO American Babbitt Bea…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Babbitt Bearing (0.1 TCR gap)

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Barnes Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Barnes Industries averages 11.2 TCR (340% of the Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Barnes Industries TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2018=12.1 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=10.2 · 2021=21.9 · 2022=16.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Barnes Industries falls in its industry

111 Ball joints (except aircraft, establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Ball joints (except aircraft, employers in Michigan.

Barnes Industries (39 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Barnes Industries
Barnes Industries (39 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Barnes Industries has fewer employees than the Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2022 16.2 9.7 5 0 0
2021 21.9 18.8 7 0 0
2020 10.2 10.2 1 2 0
2019 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2018 12.1 9.7 5 0 0
2016 2.3 2.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333613 · MI · Madison Heights

111 Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 107 employers in Madison 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 American Babbitt Bearing 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morris Coupling Company 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Van Zeeland Manufacturing, Inc. 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Powertrain Rockford 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mount Hope Dairy 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE CFI - Livonia 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dart Facilities 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cripps Fontaine Excavating, INC 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR MADISON HEIGHTS (MIMAD) 774 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIMAD - MADISON HEIGHTS 749 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-MIDET183 668 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIDET183 ASCENSION MACOMB-OAKLAND HOSP - MADISON HEIGHTS 509 FTE
NAT-TCR Fleet Farm - Chippewa Falls (MRU5149) 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1808 LKQ Western Truck Parts 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0005-0005-00322 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Willow Creek Senior Living 11.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Walnut Creek 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wysong Enterprises, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food Giant #540 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tti, Inc - Ma 39 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.