Machine shops · Michigan

Ka-Wood Gear & Machine Co.

Name: Ka-Wood Gear & Machine Co. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Madison Heights, MI · ~34 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Ka-Wood Gear & Machine Co. runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

Ka-Wood Gear & Machine Co.: 4.7 TCR = 143% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ka-Wood Gear & Machine Co. safety composite

Ka-Wood Gear & Machine Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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).

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers
DART rate: F 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

Ka-Wood Gear & Machine Co. held a steady TCR band

Ka-Wood Gear & Machine Co.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 5.5 in 2019 to 5.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.5 · 2022=3.0 · 2023=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Madison Heights, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 143% of ind

DART 2.8 DART
RANK #55/111
PHOTO Schulte Machine Work…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schulte Machine Works, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Ka-Wood Gear & Machine Co. averages 4.7 TCR (143% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

Ka-Wood Gear & Machine Co. TCR series: 2019=5.5 · 2022=3 · 2023=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Ka-Wood Gear & Machine Co. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #55 safest of 111 Machine shops employers in Michigan.

Ka-Wood Gear & Machine Co. (34 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Ka-Wood Gear & Machine Co. has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023	5.5	2.8	2
2022	3.0	3.0	1
2019	5.5	0.0	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · MI · Madison Heights

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 107 employers in Madison Heights, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Schulte Machine Works, Inc.	ROSENBERG, TX	4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Mahuta Tool Corp	GERMANTOWN, WI	4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Time Machine Inc.	POLK, PA	4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CNC - Machine Shop	COCOA, FL	4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	GS Ashley LLC	MADISON HEIGHTS	34 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sportel Greenhouses, LLC	KALAMAZOO	34 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Coldwater	COLDWATER	34 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Dearborn Industrial Generation LLC	DEARBORN	34 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MADISON HEIGHTS (MIMAD)	Madison Heights	774 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MIMAD - MADISON HEIGHTS	Madison Heights	749 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1855-MIDET183	Madison Heights	668 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MIDET183 ASCENSION MACOMB-OAKLAND HOSP - MADISON HEIGHTS	Madison Heights	509 FTE
NAT-TCR	America's Thrift Store #25	Opelika, AL	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	J.a. Johnson Paving Company	Arlington Heights, IL	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Pannier Glenshaw	Glenshaw, PA	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Oakland, NE	Oakland, NE	4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	B & L Engineering, Inc.	Crawfordsville, IN	34 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Environmental Response	Tempe, AZ	34 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Trifecta Trading LLC	Baytown, TX	34 FTE
NAT-SIZE	City Of Olivia	Olivia, MN	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: 2023, 2022, 2019. 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.