Gray iron foundries · Michigan

Great Lakes Castings, LLC

Ludington, MI · ~182 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Castings, LLC runs at 458% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Gray iron foundries workplace, earning a grade F.

Great Lakes Castings, LLC: 15.1 TCR = 458% of Gray iron foundries BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Castings, LLC safety composite

Great Lakes Castings, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.2

2019→2022

Great Lakes Castings, LLC injury rate improved

Great Lakes Castings, LLC's TCR fell 6.2 from 15.3 in 2019 to 9.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 19.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=15.3 · 2020=16.2 · 2021=19.8 · 2022=9.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 15.1 · 458% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #21/25
  • PHOTO Benton Foundry, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 104 inj
  • SIZE ~182 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Benton Foundry, Inc. (0.2 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Castings, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Castings, LLC averages 15.1 TCR (458% 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 TCR series: 2019=15.3 · 2020=16.2 · 2021=19.8 · 2022=9.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Lakes Castings, LLC falls in its industry

272 Gray iron foundries establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #21 safest of 25 Gray iron foundries employers in Michigan.

Great Lakes Castings, LLC (182 employees, TCR 15.1) 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
Great Lakes Castings, LLC (182 employees, TCR 15.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Great Lakes Castings, LLC 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
2022 9.1 7.7 19 0 0
2021 19.8 14.2 33 6 0
2020 16.2 12.8 24 0 0
2019 15.3 8.2 28 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 Benton Foundry, Inc. 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PLYMOUTH FOUNDRY, INC 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winnebago Foundry Inc 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MCF Milwaukee Plant 14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Devon Industrial Group 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nutrilite Spaulding Plant 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEKISUI Voltek, LLC 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michigan Seamless Tube 182 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 Town of Woodbury - Police Department 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR HG766 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-PD-FAY-FAYETTEVILLE-FAY-PDMT 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00336 15.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Liberty Packaging - Quad Cities, IL 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE KFM Enterprises LLC 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dentsply Sirona Orthodontics 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warren Barr Lincolnshire 182 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.