Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade · Michigan

Heat Treat

Detroit, MI · ~14 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heat Treat runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

Heat Treat: 5.2 TCR = 158% of Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heat Treat safety composite

Heat Treat scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Heat Treat: 0.0 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 18.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Heat Treat's TCR rose 7.9 from 0.0 in 2017 to 7.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 18.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332811 · Detroit, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 158% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #26/43
  • PHOTO Turbocam Dover
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~14 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Turbocam Dover (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heat Treat in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heat Treat averages 5.2 TCR (158% of the Hardening (i.e., heat treating) 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

Heat Treat TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=18.4 · 2022=15.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=7.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Heat Treat falls in its industry

248 Hardening (i.e., heat treating establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 43 Hardening (i.e., heat treating employers in Michigan.

Heat Treat (14 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Heat Treat
Heat Treat (14 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Heat Treat has fewer employees than the Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals a median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2024 7.9 0.0 0 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 15.4 7.7 1 1 0
2021 18.4 18.4 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332811 · MI · Detroit

248 Hardening (i.e., heat treating) metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 673 employers in Detroit, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Turbocam Dover 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bodycote Thermal Processing, Inc. - Greensburg 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paulo - Murfreesboro 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Specialty Steel Treating, Inc. 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lansing 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4717_10746 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE MICHIGAN PEAT - RETAIL PLANT 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hercules Concrete - GO 14 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Hospital 8,838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Detroit Campus 8,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - DTW 6,640 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Corporation 5,241 FTE
NAT-TCR FARMINGTON 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Union Storage & Transfer 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Gurnee Fire Department 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hayes Construction Company 5.2 TCR

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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.