Gray iron foundries · Michigan

Great Lakes Castings LLC - Ludington

Ludington, MI · ~164 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Castings LLC - Ludington runs at 311% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Gray iron foundries workplace, earning a grade F.

Great Lakes Castings LLC - Ludington: 10.3 TCR = 311% of Gray iron foundries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Castings LLC - Ludington safety composite

Great Lakes Castings LLC - Ludington scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Great Lakes Castings LLC - Ludington: 8.7 → 11.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2018

Great Lakes Castings LLC - Ludington's TCR rose 3.1 from 8.7 in 2017 to 11.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Ludington, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 311% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #16/25
  • PHOTO Sioux City Foundry Co
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~164 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sioux City Foundry Co (0.1 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Castings LLC - Ludington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Castings LLC - Ludington averages 10.3 TCR (311% of the Gray iron foundries BLS benchmark).

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

Great Lakes Castings LLC - Ludington TCR series: 2017=8.7 · 2018=11.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Lakes Castings LLC - Ludington falls in its industry

272 Gray iron foundries establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 25 Gray iron foundries employers in Michigan.

Great Lakes Castings LLC - Ludington (164 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 Great Lakes Castings LLC - Ludington
Great Lakes Castings LLC - Ludington (164 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Great Lakes Castings LLC - Ludington has more employees than the Gray iron foundries median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2018 11.8 8.9 20 0 0
2017 8.7 1.9 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · MI · Ludington

272 Gray iron foundries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 55 employers in Ludington, 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 Sioux City Foundry Co 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hawkes Plant 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allied Machinery Richland, LLC 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rowe 10.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sachse Construction 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zoetis GMS South 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE 464 - Pharmacy Central Fill #2 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Madison Heights 164 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Ludington Hospital - SHLH 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2102 294 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ludington 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2102 274 FTE
NAT-TCR InterChange Operations 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Max & Erma's Mentor 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Grove Care & Wellness ALF 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR OUTWOOD 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aerojet Rocketdyne - Huntsville 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE 111-115 Thomasville 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Active Pest Control 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE TPA - Airport United Airlines Offices 164 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: 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.