Car wheels, rolled steel, made in iron and steel mills · Michigan

Bedford

Erie, MI · ~70 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bedford runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Car wheels, rolled steel, made in iron and steel mills workplace, earning a grade C.

Bedford: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Car wheels, rolled steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bedford safety composite

Bedford scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Bedford held a steady TCR band

Bedford's TCR held near 0.1 from 3.2 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.2 · 2017=1.9 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Erie, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #6/25
  • PHOTO ArcelorMittal Consho…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ArcelorMittal Conshohocken (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bedford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bedford averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Car wheels, rolled steel, made in iron and steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Bedford TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2017=1.9 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Bedford falls in its industry

416 Car wheels, rolled steel, made establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 25 Car wheels, rolled steel, made employers in Michigan.

Bedford (70 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bedford
Bedford (70 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Bedford has fewer employees than the Car wheels, rolled steel, made in iron a median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2020 3.4 2.3 3 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2017 1.9 1.0 2 0 0
2016 3.2 2.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · MI · Erie

416 Car wheels, rolled steel, made in iron and steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 8 employers in Erie, 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 ArcelorMittal Conshohocken 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Faircrest Steel Plant 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nippon Steel Pipe America Inc 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR U.P. MACHINE & ENGINEERING 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trail Street 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Christman Company - West Michigan 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Retail Contractors of Puerto Rico Inc 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earthcom, Inc. 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Allied Waste Services of North America 164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Republic Services 4259 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Automatic Handling International, Inc. 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heidtman Steel Products Inc.-Bedford Tube Mill 111 FTE
NAT-TCR EFP Decatur 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hunter Communications, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Norlake 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rotadyne Roll Group Leola 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Blevins Asphalt Mt. Vernon 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSC - Jesco Industrial Services, LLC-CCW 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bethesda Home 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westwood Center 70 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: 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.