Ladders, portable metal, manufacturing · Michigan

Cotterman Company - Michigan Division

Croswell, MI · ~229 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cotterman Company - Michigan Division runs at 235% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ladders, portable metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Cotterman Company - Michigan Division: 7.8 TCR = 235% of Ladders, portable metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cotterman Company - Michigan Division safety composite

Cotterman Company - Michigan Division scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Cotterman Company - Michigan Division: 8.6 → 51.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 51.4 TCR · DART/TCR 6.07× in 2024

Cotterman Company - Michigan Division's TCR rose 42.8 from 8.6 in 2016 to 51.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 6.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Croswell, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 235% of ind

  • DART 47.1 DART
  • RANK #33/50
  • PHOTO Ohio Stamping & Mach…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 129 inj
  • SIZE ~229 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ohio Stamping & Machine (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cotterman Company - Michigan Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cotterman Company - Michigan Division averages 7.8 TCR (235% of the Ladders, portable metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cotterman Company - Michigan Division TCR series: 2016=8.6 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=8.2 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=13.2 · 2024=51.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Cotterman Company - Michigan Division falls in its industry

827 Ladders, portable metal, manuf establishments

Safer than 22% 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 #33 safest of 50 Ladders, portable metal, manuf employers in Michigan.

Cotterman Company - Michigan Division (229 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cotterman Company - Michigan Division
Cotterman Company - Michigan Division (229 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Cotterman Company - Michigan Division has more employees than the Ladders, portable metal, manufacturing median and a higher 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 51.4 47.1 10 2 0
2023 13.2 8.5 26 5 0
2022 6.9 6.6 18 0 0
2021 5.5 5.5 14 0 0
2019 8.2 5.0 17 1 0
2018 5.6 5.1 12 0 0
2017 6.3 5.9 14 0 0
2016 8.6 6.7 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · MI · Croswell

827 Ladders, portable metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 5 employers in Croswell, 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 Ohio Stamping & Machine 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maven Solutions LLC 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advex Corporation 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Honeyville Metal, LLC 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Arlene Resource Management LLC 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1041P - Grand Rapids Production 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE A-1 Screen Printing dba Underground Printing 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asahi Kasei Plastics Michigan 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gielow Pickles, Inc 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Croswell Factory 206 FTE
CITY-NEAR Conveyor Components Company 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Croswell-lexington Co* 27 FTE
NAT-TCR Cellusuede Products, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Massey Services 15 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunshine Mills Dublin, GA 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kalahari Resort 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lennar Bay Area 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE DC3 Shorewood 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foodservice Arizona - 1012 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE Racetrack Supermarket LLC 229 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, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.