Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing · Michigan

MEC Vanderbilt South

Vanderbilt, MI · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

MEC Vanderbilt South runs at 328% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

MEC Vanderbilt South: 10.8 TCR = 328% of Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MEC Vanderbilt South safety composite

MEC Vanderbilt South scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

MEC Vanderbilt South: 0.0 → 21.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 21.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2023

MEC Vanderbilt South's TCR rose 21.7 from 0.0 in 2020 to 21.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Vanderbilt, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 328% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #43/50
  • PHOTO Basin Material Handl…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Basin Material Handling (0.1 TCR gap)

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

MEC Vanderbilt South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MEC Vanderbilt South averages 10.8 TCR (328% of the Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

MEC Vanderbilt South TCR series: 2020=0 · 2023=21.7 · BLS 3.3

Where MEC Vanderbilt South falls in its industry

827 Tubing, flexible metal, manufa establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #43 safest of 50 Tubing, flexible metal, manufa employers in Michigan.

MEC Vanderbilt South (24 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate MEC Vanderbilt South
MEC Vanderbilt South (24 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

MEC Vanderbilt South has fewer employees than the Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing 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
2023 21.7 5.4 4 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · MI · Vanderbilt

827 Tubing, flexible metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 5 employers in Vanderbilt, 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 Basin Material Handling 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Y.B.Welding Inc 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 185_202 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Safe 9g Products Inc Division 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Medina Dairy, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sturgis 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE CE Innovation Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Filtration and Meter Shop 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR H&H Tube 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vanderbilt North 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR H-H tube 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ell-Tron Manufacturing Co., Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-TCR Bement Health Care 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Altair Enviromental Group 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR OrePac Building Products - Spokane 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Services - Town of Black Mountain 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE CYE Kewanee 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winter garden ready Mix 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #255 MADISON, IN 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1608 GLEN BURNIE, MD 24 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: 2023, 2020. 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.