Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing · Michigan

Guardian Industries -Carleton

Carleton, MI · ~327 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Guardian Industries -Carleton runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Guardian Industries -Carleton: 3.1 TCR = 94% of Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Guardian Industries -Carleton safety composite

Guardian Industries -Carleton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Guardian Industries -Carleton: 2.5 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.51× in 2024

Guardian Industries -Carleton's TCR rose 4.1 from 2.5 in 2016 to 6.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327211 · Carleton, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Pittsburgh Glass Wor…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~327 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC - Meadville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Guardian Industries -Carleton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Guardian Industries -Carleton averages 3.1 TCR (94% of the Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Guardian Industries -Carleton TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=1.7 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=1.8 · 2022=3 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Guardian Industries -Carleton falls in its industry

105 Flat glass (e.g., float, plate establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

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 7 Flat glass (e.g., float, plate employers in Michigan.

Guardian Industries -Carleton (327 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 180 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Guardian Industries -Carleton
Guardian Industries -Carleton (327 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 180 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Guardian Industries -Carleton has more employees than the Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufact median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 6.6 4.7 14 7 0
2023 5.3 3.1 17 0 0
2022 3.0 2.4 10 0 0
2019 1.8 1.1 8 0 0
2018 0.9 0.9 5 0 0
2017 1.7 1.5 6 1 0
2016 2.5 1.0 4 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327211 · MI · Carleton

105 Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 11 employers in Carleton, 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 Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC - Meadville 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Durant FG 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal FG -Winlock FG 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal FG -Portage FG 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fairlife, LLC 327 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asama Coldwater Mfg - Michigan 327 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laminated Products Plant 327 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2192 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR Airport Community Schools 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR MANHEIM DETROIT 284 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0586 MANHEIM DETROIT 600 WILL CARLETON RD 281 FTE
CITY-NEAR Four Star Greenhouse, Inc. 261 FTE
NAT-TCR 33 Hsc 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Vcf 129 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Jendoco Construction Corporation 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Asf 409 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plastic Ingenuity, Inc. 327 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Chemours Company FC, LLC - Chambers Works 327 FTE
NAT-SIZE ELZ 327 FTE
NAT-SIZE TX100 327 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.