Coating metals and metal products for the trade · Michigan

Freedom Finishing Inc

Benton Harbor, MI · ~70 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freedom Finishing Inc runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Coating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade A.

Freedom Finishing Inc: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freedom Finishing Inc safety composite

Freedom Finishing Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Freedom Finishing Inc held a steady TCR band

Freedom Finishing Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Benton Harbor, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/47
  • PHOTO STC Pewaukee
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STC Pewaukee (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freedom Finishing Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freedom Finishing Inc averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Freedom Finishing Inc TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Freedom Finishing Inc falls in its industry

646 Coating metals and metal produ establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

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 47 Coating metals and metal produ employers in Michigan.

Freedom Finishing Inc (70 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Freedom Finishing Inc
Freedom Finishing Inc (70 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Freedom Finishing Inc has more employees than the Coating metals and metal products for th median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.7 0.0 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · MI · Benton Harbor

646 Coating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 74 employers in Benton Harbor, 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 STC Pewaukee 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aalberts Surface Technologies 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PST Thermal Spray Consumables 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ionbond - St.Paul 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trail Street 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Christman Company - West Michigan 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Retail Contractors of Puerto Rico Inc 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earthcom, Inc. 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2062 332 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gast Manufacturing 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2062 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Idex 281 FTE
NAT-TCR HPC Industrial Services LLC H1226 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyundai of Mankato 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Chris Albritton Construction Company, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Allen County Public Library 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Canton 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arms Technology Incorporated 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE T&T Electrical Contractors, Inc. 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Landover 762 70 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. 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.