Furniture hardware, metal, manufacturing · Michigan

Knape and Vogt Eastern

Grand Rapids, MI · ~191 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knape and Vogt Eastern runs at 239% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Furniture hardware, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Knape and Vogt Eastern: 7.9 TCR = 239% of Furniture hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knape and Vogt Eastern safety composite

Knape and Vogt Eastern scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.7

2016→2019

Knape and Vogt Eastern injury rate improved

Knape and Vogt Eastern's TCR fell 7.7 from 11.8 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.8 · 2019=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332510 · Grand Rapids, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 239% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO Attentive Industries…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~191 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Attentive Industries Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knape and Vogt Eastern in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knape and Vogt Eastern averages 7.9 TCR (239% of the Furniture hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Knape and Vogt Eastern TCR series: 2016=11.8 · 2019=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Knape and Vogt Eastern falls in its industry

189 Furniture hardware, metal, man establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Furniture hardware, metal, man employers in Michigan.

Knape and Vogt Eastern (191 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Knape and Vogt Eastern
Knape and Vogt Eastern (191 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Knape and Vogt Eastern has more employees than the Furniture hardware, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2019 4.0 0.0 7 0 0
2016 11.8 2.2 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332510 · MI · Grand Rapids

189 Furniture hardware, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 1,006 employers in Grand Rapids, 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 Attentive Industries Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cobra Anchors Corporation 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amanda Manufacturing 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR dormakaba 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Roskam Foods M2 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Renosol Seating, LLC - Farwell 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Warren Screw Products, Inc. 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Humanetics Michigan 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA 9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Butterworth Hospital 7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR Scioto Trails 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon Transportation Services : BFI5 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Portland Operations 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR International Timber & Veneer 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Garden City 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Co 19 Maines Paper & Food Service, Inc. 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Princess Anne Health and Rehabilitation Center 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berkshire Health and Rehabiliation Center 191 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: 2019, 2016. 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.