Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing · Michigan

Black River Stamping & Automation (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 4)

Holland, MI · ~827 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black River Stamping & Automation (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 4) runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Black River Stamping & Automation (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 4): 4.5 TCR = 84% of Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black River Stamping & Automation (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 4) safety composite

Black River Stamping & Automation (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 4) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

Black River Stamping & Automation (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 4): 2.8 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.23× in 2024

Black River Stamping & Automation (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 4)'s TCR rose 2.1 from 2.8 in 2020 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336370 · Holland, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 84% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #73/165
  • PHOTO Challenge Manufactur…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 189 inj
  • SIZE ~827 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Challenge Manufacturing - Kansas City Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black River Stamping & Automation (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 4) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black River Stamping & Automation (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 4) averages 4.5 TCR (84% of the Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Black River Stamping & Automation (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 4) TCR series: 2020=2.8 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 5.4

Where Black River Stamping & Automation (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 4) falls in its industry

510 Job stampings, automotive, met establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #73 safest of 165 Job stampings, automotive, met employers in Michigan.

Black River Stamping & Automation (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 4) (827 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 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 05001,0001,500 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Black River Stamping & Automation (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 4)
Black River Stamping & Automation (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 4) (827 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Black River Stamping & Automation (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 4) has more employees than the Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufa 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 4.9 1.1 45 1 0
2023 5.9 2.4 71 0 0
2022 4.5 1.6 47 0 0
2020 2.8 1.0 26 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336370 · MI · Holland

510 Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 299 employers in Holland, 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 Challenge Manufacturing - Kansas City Manufacturing 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LMC Industries, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Interplex Sunbelt 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ITW Drawform 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grayling 829 FTE
STATE-SIZE PRIORITY HEALTH MANAGED BENEFITS INC 825 FTE
STATE-SIZE B09 829 FTE
STATE-SIZE Comprehensive Care Services, Inc. 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR LG Energy Solutions - Holland 1,263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Haworth HQ 1,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Haworth Office 1,075 FTE
CITY-NEAR PADNOS 912 FTE
NAT-TCR Challenge Manufacturing - Kansas City Manufacturing 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Jack in the Box #7212 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR First Texas Products LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Anaplex Corporation 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE CC Business Operations Ctr 827 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Memorial Hospital 827 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stanley Martin Homes, LLC 827 FTE
NAT-SIZE McDonough, DC 827 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.