Aluminum die-casting foundries · Michigan

Great Lakes Division

Sparta, MI · ~149 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Division runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Aluminum die-casting foundries workplace, earning a grade C.

Great Lakes Division: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Aluminum die-casting foundries BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Division safety composite

Great Lakes Division scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

Great Lakes Division: 0.6 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2023

Great Lakes Division's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.6 in 2017 to 2.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331523 · Sparta, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #9/32
  • PHOTO Water Gremlin Co.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~149 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Water Gremlin Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Division averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Aluminum die-casting foundries BLS benchmark).

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

Great Lakes Division TCR series: 2017=0.6 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=3.9 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Lakes Division falls in its industry

221 Aluminum die-casting foundries establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 32 Aluminum die-casting foundries employers in Michigan.

Great Lakes Division (149 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Great Lakes Division
Great Lakes Division (149 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Great Lakes Division has more employees than the Aluminum die-casting foundries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2023 2.3 1.8 4 0 0
2022 3.9 3.2 6 0 0
2019 3.9 2.6 4 2 0
2018 2.9 1.7 5 0 0
2017 0.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331523 · MI · Sparta

221 Aluminum die-casting foundries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 33 employers in Sparta, 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 Water Gremlin Co. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Madison Precision Products 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GENERALDIE CASTERS PENINSULA 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Omni Die Casting, Inc. 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trombley Service Center 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vredevoogd Heating and Cooling 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mersino Dewatering/Global Pump 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE E.T. MacKenzie Company 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR Agrico Labor LLC 559 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Formulations 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal-Mogul Powertrain 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cascade Die Casting Group - Great Lakes 139 FTE
NAT-TCR 141-Canyon Lake/Sattler Rd 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 2086 Severn Distrib Center (Md) 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Positronic Campbell Facility 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Smithfield 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Steele Hill Resort 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE R&R Construction, INC. @ Westlake Chemical 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kimball Farms 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Everett #104 149 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: 2023, 2022, 2019, 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.