Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing · Michigan

Douglas Autotech

Bronson, MI · ~83 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Douglas Autotech runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Douglas Autotech: 3.0 TCR = 56% of Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Douglas Autotech safety composite

Douglas Autotech scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Douglas Autotech: 0.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2023

Douglas Autotech's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 4.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336330 · Bronson, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 56% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #20/35
  • PHOTO Lebanon, IN
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lebanon, IN (0.0 TCR gap)

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Douglas Autotech in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Douglas Autotech averages 3.0 TCR (56% of the Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Douglas Autotech TCR series: 2020=0 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=4 · BLS 5.4

Where Douglas Autotech falls in its industry

134 Automotive, truck and bus stee establishments

Safer than 43% 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 #20 safest of 35 Automotive, truck and bus stee employers in Michigan.

Douglas Autotech (83 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Douglas Autotech
Douglas Autotech (83 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Douglas Autotech has fewer employees than the Automotive, truck and bus steering assem 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
2023 4.0 3.2 5 0 0
2022 5.1 4.1 5 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336330 · MI · Bronson

134 Automotive, truck and bus steering assemblies and parts manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 6 employers in Bronson, 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 Lebanon, IN 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NHKI New Mather Metals Inc 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2347 Dove St 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AS - Automotive Steering 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE F&V Operations and Resource Management, Inc. 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scodeller Construction Inc. 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vos Glass, LLC 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1557_3151 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lynn Mayer's Great Lakes Glads, Inc. 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR G&W Display Fixtures 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bronson Plating Co 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spartanwood LLC 27 FTE
NAT-TCR Key Systems, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sandy Grocery Outlet 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Embassy Suites Laredo 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Adapt-A-Pak 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Austin Urethane, LLC 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trulite Glass and Aluminum Solutions 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE M.S. Rau 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oxco, Inc. 83 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: 2023, 2022, 2020. 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.