Steel manufacturing · Michigan

Davis Iron Works, Inc.

Walled Lake, MI · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Davis Iron Works, Inc. runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Davis Iron Works, Inc.: 5.4 TCR = 163% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Davis Iron Works, Inc. safety composite

Davis Iron Works, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Davis Iron Works, Inc.: 3.9 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Davis Iron Works, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.0 from 3.9 in 2016 to 6.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Walled Lake, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 163% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #16/25
  • PHOTO Gerdau Ameristeel US…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Davis Iron Works, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Davis Iron Works, Inc. averages 5.4 TCR (163% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Davis Iron Works, Inc. TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Davis Iron Works, Inc. falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 25 Steel manufacturing employers in Michigan.

Davis Iron Works, Inc. (19 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Davis Iron Works, Inc.
Davis Iron Works, Inc. (19 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Davis Iron Works, Inc. has fewer employees than the Steel manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 6.9 0.0 1 0 0
2016 3.9 3.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · MI · Walled Lake

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 24 employers in Walled Lake, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ferrous85" Co. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR VINTON STEEL, LLC. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Galvanizing 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Everbest 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries, Inc - Webberville (Greenhouse) 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rieth-Riley - Houghton Lake 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arenac County Road Commission 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR C.A. Hull Co., Inc. 337 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0896 - Commerce Township 209 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTSV-M 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR 259700-WALLED LAKE PO 131 FTE
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Chelsea 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mira Loma Vehicle Delivery Operations 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Springs Metals 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tracy 5.4 TCR

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, 2016. 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.