building materials · Michigan

Location 18 - Truss Plant

Dowagiac, MI · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Location 18 - Truss Plant runs at 221% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical building materials workplace, earning a grade F.

Location 18 - Truss Plant: 7.5 TCR = 221% of building materials BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Location 18 - Truss Plant safety composite

Location 18 - Truss Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Location 18 - Truss Plant: 6.8 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2017

Location 18 - Truss Plant's TCR rose 1.5 from 6.8 in 2016 to 8.3 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Dowagiac, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 221% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #38/54
  • PHOTO Moore Lumber & Hardw…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Moore Lumber & Hardware Pine (0.0 TCR gap)

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Location 18 - Truss Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Location 18 - Truss Plant averages 7.5 TCR (221% of the building materials BLS benchmark).

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

Location 18 - Truss Plant TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=8.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Location 18 - Truss Plant falls in its industry

1,643 building materials establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 54 building materials employers in Michigan.

Location 18 - Truss Plant (48 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Location 18 - Truss Plant
Location 18 - Truss Plant (48 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Location 18 - Truss Plant has more employees than the building materials median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2017 8.3 6.2 4 0 0
2016 6.8 6.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · MI · Dowagiac

1,643 building materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 22 employers in Dowagiac, 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 Moore Lumber & Hardware Pine 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florence Medford 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Denver CO - Forest St 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 22 Frederick 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sietsema Farms 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.M. Longyear, LLC - Office & Forestry 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Packing Co 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Top Grade Aggregates, LLC 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADD, INC 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dowagiac Campus 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR Creative Foam 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR Creative Foam - Dowagiac 256 FTE
NAT-TCR Concrete Specialties Co-Kenosha 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Morristown (Tnmor) 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Salisbury (Ncsal) 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PnP Tallahassee 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Truman Valley Healthcare Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Malden LLC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southeast Connections LLc ( Savannah, Georgia) 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Building 21/CP/Fleet /Maint 48 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: 2017, 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.