Grinding wheels manufacturing · Michigan

L.R. Oliver & Co., Inc.

Cottrellville, MI · ~40 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

L.R. Oliver & Co., Inc. runs at 17% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Grinding wheels manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

L.R. Oliver & Co., Inc.: 0.6 TCR = 17% of Grinding wheels manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

L.R. Oliver & Co., Inc. safety composite

L.R. Oliver & Co., Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

L.R. Oliver & Co., Inc.: 0.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 4.67× in 2024

L.R. Oliver & Co., Inc.'s TCR rose 2.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 4.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327910 · Cottrellville, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 17% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #1/10
  • PHOTO Hyperion Worthington
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hyperion Worthington (0.2 TCR gap)

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L.R. Oliver & Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows L.R. Oliver & Co., Inc. averages 0.6 TCR (17% of the Grinding wheels manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

L.R. Oliver & Co., Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where L.R. Oliver & Co., Inc. falls in its industry

90 Grinding wheels manufacturing establishments

Safer than 97% 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 #1 safest of 10 Grinding wheels manufacturing employers in Michigan.

L.R. Oliver & Co., Inc. (40 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate L.R. Oliver & Co., Inc.
L.R. Oliver & Co., Inc. (40 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.5

L.R. Oliver & Co., Inc. has fewer employees than the Grinding wheels manufacturing median and a lower 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
2024 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2023 2.5 2.5 0 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327910 · MI · Cottrellville

90 Grinding wheels manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 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 Hyperion Worthington 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Divine Brothers. Co 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linde Advanced Material Technologies Inc 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR UNISAND 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shelbyville, MI 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dan & Jerrys Pineview Greenhouse LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thumb Electric Cooperative of Michigan 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Lam Research Corp. Tualatin Campus 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Plano Store #2102 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CPAVE, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Port Richey - # 206 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Miami International - #406 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arrow/Laceyville 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Two Men And A Truck 0325 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Lift Trucks Madison 40 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.