Machine shops · Michigan

LECO Corporation -- Machine Shop

Saint Joseph, MI · ~72 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

LECO Corporation -- Machine Shop runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

LECO Corporation -- Machine Shop: 5.3 TCR = 159% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LECO Corporation -- Machine Shop safety composite

LECO Corporation -- Machine Shop scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

−0.4

2021→2024

LECO Corporation -- Machine Shop injury rate improved

LECO Corporation -- Machine Shop's TCR fell 0.4 from 5.7 in 2021 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.7 · 2022=8.8 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Saint Joseph, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 159% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #59/111
  • PHOTO Square Deal Machinin…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Square Deal Machining Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Michigan employers → · Look up another →

LECO Corporation -- Machine Shop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LECO Corporation -- Machine Shop averages 5.3 TCR (159% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

LECO Corporation -- Machine Shop TCR series: 2021=5.7 · 2022=8.8 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where LECO Corporation -- Machine Shop falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 111 Machine shops employers in Michigan.

LECO Corporation -- Machine Shop (72 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate LECO Corporation -- Machine Shop
LECO Corporation -- Machine Shop (72 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

LECO Corporation -- Machine Shop has more 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 5.3 4.0 4 0 0
2023 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2022 8.8 4.4 6 0 0
2021 5.7 2.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · MI · Saint Joseph

1,821 Machine shops 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 Square Deal Machining Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Renco Machine Company, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Star Iron Works, Inc 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR M & W Manufacturing Co 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Driven Grow LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elite Apple Company, LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lynn Mayer's Great Lakes Glads, Inc. 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Navitas House 72 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 Grinnell Regional Medical Center 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Aleut Logistics Services, LLC - Summary 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Terraces of Los Altos 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbus Awning Company 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cherryfield Plant 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stine Natchitoches 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monterey Pacific, LLC 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Andover Research and Development 72 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. 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.