Machine shops · Michigan

Echo Quality Grinding 1

Central Lake, MI · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Echo Quality Grinding 1 runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

Echo Quality Grinding 1: 5.9 TCR = 178% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Echo Quality Grinding 1 safety composite

Echo Quality Grinding 1 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Echo Quality Grinding 1: 0.0 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2017

Echo Quality Grinding 1's TCR rose 11.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 11.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Central Lake, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 178% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #70/111
  • PHOTO NMP, Inc (dba: Nowak…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NMP, Inc (dba: Nowak Machined Products) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Echo Quality Grinding 1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Echo Quality Grinding 1 averages 5.9 TCR (178% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Echo Quality Grinding 1 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=11.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Echo Quality Grinding 1 falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #70 safest of 111 Machine shops employers in Michigan.

Echo Quality Grinding 1 (21 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Echo Quality Grinding 1
Echo Quality Grinding 1 (21 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Echo Quality Grinding 1 has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2017 11.7 5.9 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · MI · Central Lake

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 3 employers in Central Lake, 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 NMP, Inc (dba: Nowak Machined Products) 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Velocity Machine Inc 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AxleTech 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MDI Manufacturing, Inc. 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms Sturgis 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE BE Cultivation 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4605_15228 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willard DeHaan & Son Grnhs 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Lake Armor Express, Inc. 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Lake Garage 35 FTE
NAT-TCR Peapod S&S Framingham, Ma 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0019 1223 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 4319 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbia Hub (Sccol) 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4006 Mt. Aloysius College 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0774 - Albuquerque-Central, Nm 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0744 - Jasper, Al 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0725 - Easton, Pa 21 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: 2017, 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.