Shelving, wire, made from purchased wire · Michigan

Kaines West Michigan Co

Ludington, MI · ~71 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kaines West Michigan Co runs at 441% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Shelving, wire, made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade F.

Kaines West Michigan Co: 14.6 TCR = 441% of Shelving, wire, made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kaines West Michigan Co safety composite

Kaines West Michigan Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kaines West Michigan Co: 6.8 → 23.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 23.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2022

Kaines West Michigan Co's TCR rose 16.7 from 6.8 in 2016 to 23.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · Ludington, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.6 · 441% of ind

  • DART 11.7 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO Howard City
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 63 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Howard City (0.6 TCR gap)

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Kaines West Michigan Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kaines West Michigan Co averages 14.6 TCR (441% of the Shelving, wire, made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

Kaines West Michigan Co TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=14.8 · 2018=20 · 2019=17.5 · 2020=9.8 · 2021=9.6 · 2022=23.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Kaines West Michigan Co falls in its industry

270 Shelving, wire, made from purc establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Shelving, wire, made from purc employers in Michigan.

Kaines West Michigan Co (71 employees, TCR 14.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kaines West Michigan Co
Kaines West Michigan Co (71 employees, TCR 14.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Kaines West Michigan Co has more employees than the Shelving, wire, made from purchased wire median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 23.5 11.7 4 0 0
2021 9.6 5.8 5 0 0
2020 9.8 6.5 6 0 0
2019 17.5 11.7 11 1 0
2018 20.0 6.7 18 0 0
2017 14.8 6.8 13 0 0
2016 6.8 2.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · MI · Ludington

270 Shelving, wire, made from purchased wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 55 employers in Ludington, 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 Howard City 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maine 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Master Halco Olney Mfg 076 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jesco Industries, INC 12.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Applegate Dairy LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE FCC Construction Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weiss Construction Co., LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE IHRone 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Ludington Hospital - SHLH 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2102 294 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ludington 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2102 274 FTE
NAT-TCR Ridgewood Care Center 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Santa Rosa - Transit 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02078 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-01671 14.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heritage Rehabilitation & Living Center 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barron Collier Partnership, LLLP 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Credit Forms, Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE M Pineda Farming Co 71 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.