Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · Michigan

Liberty Steel Fabricating Inc

St Joseph, MI · ~50 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Liberty Steel Fabricating Inc runs at 276% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Liberty Steel Fabricating Inc: 9.1 TCR = 276% of Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Liberty Steel Fabricating Inc safety composite

Liberty Steel Fabricating Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Liberty Steel Fabricating Inc: 5.4 → 16.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 16.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.4× in 2021

Liberty Steel Fabricating Inc's TCR rose 11.0 from 5.4 in 2016 to 16.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · St Joseph, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 276% of ind

  • DART 12.8 DART
  • RANK #46/53
  • PHOTO DMI OH-1
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DMI OH-1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Liberty Steel Fabricating Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Liberty Steel Fabricating Inc averages 9.1 TCR (276% of the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Liberty Steel Fabricating Inc TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2017=6.4 · 2018=12 · 2019=9.1 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=16.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Liberty Steel Fabricating Inc falls in its industry

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 53 Air cowls, sheet metal (except employers in Michigan.

Liberty Steel Fabricating Inc (50 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Liberty Steel Fabricating Inc
Liberty Steel Fabricating Inc (50 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Liberty Steel Fabricating Inc has fewer employees than the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2021 16.4 12.8 8 1 0
2020 5.4 0.0 3 0 0
2019 9.1 0.0 5 0 0
2018 12.0 12.0 7 0 0
2017 6.4 1.6 4 0 0
2016 5.4 1.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · MI · St Joseph

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 18 employers in St 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 DMI OH-1 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sal J. Acosta Sheetmetal Manufacturing Co., Inc. 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PCI INDUSTRIES (Pottorff) CA Plant 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evans Manufacturing 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Commonwealth Commerce Center 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gas Construction Midland 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-City Acoustical 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4066_7786 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Medical Center 2,222 FTE
CITY-NEAR LECO Corporation- Headquarters 244 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Lakes Eye Care 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR ALLI - St Joseph 166 FTE
NAT-TCR Bargen Incorporated 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ALB 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DeSmet Retirement Community 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lindenwold Preschool Building 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE EFD Madison 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boston Harley-Davidson 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Works Department 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE IKONICS Grand Ave 50 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.