Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) · Michigan

CWC - Kautex

Muskegon, MI · ~302 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CWC - Kautex runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) workplace, earning a grade B.

CWC - Kautex: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CWC - Kautex safety composite

CWC - Kautex scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 94% 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).

B

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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

−0.9

2020→2021

CWC - Kautex injury rate improved

CWC - Kautex's TCR fell 0.9 from 2.4 in 2020 to 1.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.4 · 2021=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Muskegon, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/25
  • PHOTO Grede St Cloud
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~302 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grede St Cloud (0.0 TCR gap)

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CWC - Kautex in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CWC - Kautex averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) BLS benchmark).

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

CWC - Kautex TCR series: 2020=2.4 · 2021=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where CWC - Kautex falls in its industry

272 Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile establishments

Safer than 92% 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 #2 safest of 25 Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile employers in Michigan.

CWC - Kautex (302 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 CWC - Kautex
CWC - Kautex (302 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

CWC - Kautex has more employees than the Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, ma 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
2021 1.5 0.0 5 0 0
2020 2.4 1.0 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · MI · Muskegon

272 Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 230 employers in Muskegon, 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 Grede St Cloud 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grede,LLC. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tyler Union 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Civacon 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 016-00864 302 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3487 302 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3453 302 FTE
STATE-SIZE 020 - Alpine Ave Walker 302 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Partners - Sherman Campus 3,461 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Partners-1500 E Sherman BLVD-MH-MI 2,598 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Partners - Hackley 1,329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Arena 861 FTE
NAT-TCR Virginia Office 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dsg Harmony 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowry Enterprises Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sebring International Raceway 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hill & Valley Premium Bakery 302 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hanes Industries 8602 302 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raytheon_Sunnyvale_CA_AST 302 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schlumberger Technology Corporation 302 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: 2021, 2020. 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.