Engines, internal combustion (except aircraft, nondiesel automotive), manufacturing · Michigan

Melling Tool

Jackson, MI · ~307 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Melling Tool runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Engines, internal combustion (except aircraft, nondiesel automotive), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Melling Tool: 4.6 TCR = 140% of Engines, internal combustion (except aircraft, nondiesel automotive), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Melling Tool safety composite

Melling Tool scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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 4.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Melling Tool: 2.8 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2024

Melling Tool's TCR rose 3.6 from 2.8 in 2023 to 6.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333618 · Jackson, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 140% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #8/12
  • PHOTO Briggs & Stratton Co…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~307 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Briggs & Stratton Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Melling Tool in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Melling Tool averages 4.6 TCR (140% of the Engines, internal combustion (except aircraft, nondiesel automotive), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Melling Tool TCR series: 2023=2.8 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Melling Tool falls in its industry

133 Engines, internal combustion ( establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 12 Engines, internal combustion ( employers in Michigan.

Melling Tool (307 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 321 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Melling Tool
Melling Tool (307 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 321 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Melling Tool has fewer employees than the Engines, internal combustion (except air median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 6.4 4.0 13 0 0
2023 2.8 1.4 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333618 · MI · Jackson

133 Engines, internal combustion (except aircraft, nondiesel automotive), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 207 employers in Jackson, 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 Briggs & Stratton Corporation 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp., USA 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Detroit Diesel Remanufacturing LLC- Plant 3, Byesville, OH 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Volvo Powertrain NA / Mack 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kalamazoo MI (Carton) 307 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer 188 307 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer 229 Marysville 307 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2693 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR Allegiance Health 4,779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Hospital Campus 3,076 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Jackson 2,045 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford- Jackson Downtown Campus 1,201 FTE
NAT-TCR Carter Lumber 391 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Txwac - Waco 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gacol - Columbus 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Materion - Albuquerque (Mesa del Sol) 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Almob - Mobile Center 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Beverage Packers, LLC 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henniges Automotive 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE ETP Orlando 307 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.