Precision turned product manufacturing · Michigan

Kay Manufacturing Co.

Saint Joseph, MI · ~93 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kay Manufacturing Co. runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Precision turned product manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Kay Manufacturing Co.: 1.7 TCR = 50% of Precision turned product manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kay Manufacturing Co. safety composite

Kay Manufacturing Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Kay Manufacturing Co.: 0.0 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.38× in 2024

Kay Manufacturing Co.'s TCR rose 4.9 from 0.0 in 2022 to 4.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332721 · Saint Joseph, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 50% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #7/53
  • PHOTO Midwest Industrial T…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midwest Industrial Tool Grinding, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kay Manufacturing Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kay Manufacturing Co. averages 1.7 TCR (50% of the Precision turned product manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kay Manufacturing Co. TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Kay Manufacturing Co. falls in its industry

464 Precision turned product manuf establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 53 Precision turned product manuf employers in Michigan.

Kay Manufacturing Co. (93 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kay Manufacturing Co.
Kay Manufacturing Co. (93 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Kay Manufacturing Co. has more employees than the Precision turned product manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 4.9 4.0 4 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332721 · MI · Saint Joseph

464 Precision turned product manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 15 employers in Saint Joseph, 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 Midwest Industrial Tool Grinding, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CPM Century Extrusion 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Necedah Screw Machine Products, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR LMI - Wichita - Hillside 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trenton Channel Power Point 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Presque Isle Electric & Gas Coop 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michigan UCI 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE 13001 Merriman Rd., Livonia, MI 48150 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Berrien 943 FTE
CITY-NEAR LECO Corporation -- Headquarters 282 FTE
CITY-NEAR Walsworth 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6773_15687 110 FTE
NAT-TCR BF 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1911 US HWY 31 South, Athens, AL 35611 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Portland Maintenance Horizon 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 444 Lakeville Rd 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE A&A Cattle Company, LLC 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE DFW 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Salt Baytown, LLC. 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE TMX2305 93 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. 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.