Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade · Michigan

Distribution Services Plating

Detroit, MI · ~19 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Distribution Services Plating runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade workplace, earning a grade A.

Distribution Services Plating: 0.5 TCR = 16% of Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Distribution Services Plating safety composite

Distribution Services Plating scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Distribution Services Plating: 0.0 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 8.06× in 2024

Distribution Services Plating's TCR rose 4.3 from 0.0 in 2017 to 4.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 8.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Detroit, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 16% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #2/48
  • PHOTO KOWA Kentucky, Inc
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KOWA Kentucky, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Distribution Services Plating in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Distribution Services Plating averages 0.5 TCR (16% of the Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Distribution Services Plating TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Distribution Services Plating falls in its industry

585 Electroplating metals and form establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

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 48 Electroplating metals and form employers in Michigan.

Distribution Services Plating (19 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Distribution Services Plating
Distribution Services Plating (19 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Distribution Services Plating has fewer employees than the Electroplating metals and formed product median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · MI · Detroit

585 Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 673 employers in Detroit, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR KOWA Kentucky, Inc 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Raytheon Lemmon Ave 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houston Plating Company - Humble 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Markland Industries 0.6 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 Henry Ford Hospital 8,838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Detroit Campus 8,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - DTW 6,640 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Corporation 5,241 FTE
NAT-TCR WAVE Los Angeles 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR USA IL South Holland Plant 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Utah Region 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Goebel Construction Inc. 0.5 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.