Assembly line rebuilding of automotive, truck, and bus transmissions · Michigan

HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant

Royal Oak, MI · ~175 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Assembly line rebuilding of automotive, truck, and bus transmissions workplace, earning a grade C.

HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant: 5.4 TCR = 101% of Assembly line rebuilding of automotive, truck, and bus transmissions BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant safety composite

HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant: 6.1 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.28× in 2022

HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant's TCR rose 0.8 from 6.1 in 2020 to 6.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336350 · Royal Oak, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.4 · 101% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #42/61
  • PHOTO STERLING PLNT
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~175 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STERLING PLNT (0.0 TCR gap)

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HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant averages 5.4 TCR (101% of the Assembly line rebuilding of automotive, truck, and bus transmissions BLS benchmark).

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

HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant TCR series: 2020=6.1 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=6.9 · BLS 5.4

Where HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant falls in its industry

320 Assembly line rebuilding of au establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 61 Assembly line rebuilding of au employers in Michigan.

HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant (175 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant
HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant (175 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant has fewer employees than the Assembly line rebuilding of automotive, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 6.9 6.9 13 0 0
2021 3.3 2.7 6 0 0
2020 6.1 1.7 4 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336350 · MI · Royal Oak

320 Assembly line rebuilding of automotive, truck, and bus transmissions employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 51 employers in Royal Oak, 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 STERLING PLNT 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR HHI FormTech - Troy (DBA AAM) 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flexible Concepts, Inc 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 1 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kenwal Steel Corp 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Xtreme Powerline Construction Inc 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dart Container Mason Cup Mfg. 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE UFP Grand Rapids 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2250-300 9,436 FTE
CITY-NEAR Royal Oak. 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex-N- Gate Royal Oak, LLC. 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR 018-00743 268 FTE
NAT-TCR Bartlett Grain Company, L.P. (JAC) 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR S04099 - WM of St Louis - Metro 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Food City Store #631 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Food City Store #664 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Homeboy Industries 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mach Energy Service LLC 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bottom Line Equipment, Lafayette Corporate - All 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9215-OMA 175 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.