Bits, drill, metalworking, manufacturing · Michigan

Forkardt Inc.

Traverse City, MI · ~54 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forkardt Inc. runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bits, drill, metalworking, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Forkardt Inc.: 1.8 TCR = 55% of Bits, drill, metalworking, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forkardt Inc. safety composite

Forkardt Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Forkardt Inc.: 1.8 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2024

Forkardt Inc.'s TCR rose 2.9 from 1.8 in 2017 to 4.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333515 · Traverse City, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #15/40
  • PHOTO STF Precision LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STF Precision LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forkardt Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forkardt Inc. averages 1.8 TCR (55% of the Bits, drill, metalworking, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Forkardt Inc. TCR series: 2017=1.8 · 2018=1.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Forkardt Inc. falls in its industry

221 Bits, drill, metalworking, man establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 40 Bits, drill, metalworking, man employers in Michigan.

Forkardt Inc. (54 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Forkardt Inc.
Forkardt Inc. (54 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Forkardt Inc. has fewer employees than the Bits, drill, metalworking, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 4.7 2.4 2 0 0
2023 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 1.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333515 · MI · Traverse City

221 Bits, drill, metalworking, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 197 employers in Traverse City, 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 STF Precision LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR McPherson Industrial Corporation DBA Quality Chaser Company 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Lakes Custom Tool Manufacturing, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARCH CUTTING TOOLS RHODE ISLAND 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Residential Home Builder 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kalamazoo Facility 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE LS Brinker 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE ITC Operations-319 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munson Medical Center 3,845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munson Healthcare 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Michigan College 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 569 FTE
NAT-TCR 7841-Pdllc-Lake Forest College 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NFXL Delivery Service, LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Orders Services LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Primary School 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northwest Polymers LLC 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson and Turner Painting Company, Inc. 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hytech Roofing, INC 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7571-Pdllc-Bridgewater College 54 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017. 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.