Appliance hardware, metal, manufacturing · Michigan

Colson Saint Joseph

St. Joseph, MI · ~197 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Colson Saint Joseph runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Appliance hardware, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Colson Saint Joseph: 6.6 TCR = 201% of Appliance hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Colson Saint Joseph safety composite

Colson Saint Joseph scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Colson Saint Joseph: 5.2 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.21× in 2020

Colson Saint Joseph's TCR rose 2.8 from 5.2 in 2019 to 8.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332510 · St. Joseph, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 201% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #9/13
  • PHOTO Hercules Industries,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~197 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hercules Industries, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Colson Saint Joseph in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Colson Saint Joseph averages 6.6 TCR (201% of the Appliance hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Colson Saint Joseph TCR series: 2019=5.2 · 2020=8 · BLS 3.3

Where Colson Saint Joseph falls in its industry

189 Appliance hardware, metal, man establishments

Safer than 16% 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 13 Appliance hardware, metal, man employers in Michigan.

Colson Saint Joseph (197 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Colson Saint Joseph
Colson Saint Joseph (197 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Colson Saint Joseph has more employees than the Appliance hardware, metal, manufacturing 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
2020 8.0 8.0 11 4 0
2019 5.2 4.5 12 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332510 · MI · St. Joseph

189 Appliance hardware, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 30 employers in St. Joseph, 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 Hercules Industries, Inc 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Velko Hinge Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SMC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 411 Austin Road 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Michigan Regional Office - Bahou 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE ITC Operations-219 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Westlake Pipe & Fittings 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rayconnect Inc. 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph 1,938 FTE
CITY-NEAR Robert Bosch LLC 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cliffside Company d.b.a Caretel Inns of Lakeland 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospice at Home 149 FTE
NAT-TCR Roses 442 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sandpiper Rehab and Nursing 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR United Finishers 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 462 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tradesmen International Washington DC 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE QuantumClean-Hillsboro 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michels Gas Distribution- Rogers, MN 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Loews Atlanta Hotel 197 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.