Airlocks, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing · Michigan

Ideal Fabricators, Inc.

Livonia, MI · ~34 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ideal Fabricators, Inc. runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Airlocks, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ideal Fabricators, Inc.: 5.5 TCR = 166% of Airlocks, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ideal Fabricators, Inc. safety composite

Ideal Fabricators, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Ideal Fabricators, Inc.: 5.0 → 14.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2024

Ideal Fabricators, Inc.'s TCR rose 9.6 from 5.0 in 2019 to 14.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Livonia, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 166% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #10/18
  • PHOTO TDR Systems, Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TDR Systems, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ideal Fabricators, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ideal Fabricators, Inc. averages 5.5 TCR (166% of the Airlocks, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ideal Fabricators, Inc. TCR series: 2019=5 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=14.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ideal Fabricators, Inc. falls in its industry

449 Airlocks, fabricated metal pla establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 18 Airlocks, fabricated metal pla employers in Michigan.

Ideal Fabricators, Inc. (34 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Ideal Fabricators, Inc.
Ideal Fabricators, Inc. (34 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Ideal Fabricators, Inc. has fewer employees than the Airlocks, fabricated metal plate work, m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 14.6 4.8 6 0 0
2023 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.2 0.0 2 0 0
2019 5.0 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · MI · Livonia

449 Airlocks, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 282 employers in Livonia, 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 TDR Systems, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ottenweller Company, Inc. MA 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fitchburg Welding Co., Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Consolidated Rig Works 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE GS Ashley LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sportel Greenhouses, LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coldwater 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dearborn Industrial Generation LLC 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR System Office - Livonia 6,768 FTE
CITY-NEAR Livonia Transmission Plant 3,122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Livonia Transmission 2,968 FTE
CITY-NEAR Acro Service 2,701 FTE
NAT-TCR Luxor Nursing and Rehabilitation at Sayville 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tire Distributor Xperts, LLC - Baton Rouge 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Adams Robinson Enterprises, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Safety Department 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE R.A.M.M., Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smithwell, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greif Doraville Recycling 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE KS Fiberglass 34 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, 2021, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.