Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing · Michigan

Brembo North America, Foundry

Homer, MI · ~222 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brembo North America, Foundry runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Brembo North America, Foundry: 4.8 TCR = 147% of Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brembo North America, Foundry safety composite

Brembo North America, Foundry scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.8

2019→2023

Brembo North America, Foundry injury rate improved

Brembo North America, Foundry's TCR fell 2.8 from 5.0 in 2019 to 2.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.0 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=6.8 · 2023=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Homer, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 147% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #9/25
  • PHOTO Amsted Rail - Grovep…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~222 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amsted Rail - Groveport, OH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brembo North America, Foundry in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brembo North America, Foundry averages 4.8 TCR (147% of the Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Brembo North America, Foundry TCR series: 2019=5 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=6.8 · 2023=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Brembo North America, Foundry falls in its industry

272 Cast iron brake shoes, railroa establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

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 25 Cast iron brake shoes, railroa employers in Michigan.

Brembo North America, Foundry (222 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Brembo North America, Foundry
Brembo North America, Foundry (222 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Brembo North America, Foundry has more employees than the Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufac median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2023 2.1 1.8 6 0 0
2021 6.8 5.9 15 0 0
2020 5.5 2.5 11 0 0
2019 5.0 4.1 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · MI · Homer

272 Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 10 employers in Homer, 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 Amsted Rail - Groveport, OH 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hodges SC Facility 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Cast Products 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kingsbury Castings 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 103655 - Blue Water Energy Center 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE ASCO Numatics, LP 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE MHSC 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Air Lift Company 222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brembo North America - Disc Facility 333 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brembo Homer Foundry 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR WWH 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rennco LLC 57 FTE
NAT-TCR Corey Steel Company 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NHB 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kriete Truck Center Madison 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Oncology-Hematology Associates 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unit 301 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magotteaux 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allen Butler Construction Inc 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodman's Food Market Appleton 22 222 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: 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.