Furniture, laboratory-type (e.g., benches, cabinets, stools, tables), manufacturing · Michigan

Metal Arc, Inc.

Muskegon, MI · ~106 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metal Arc, Inc. runs at 331% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Furniture, laboratory-type (e.g., benches, cabinets, stools, tables), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Metal Arc, Inc.: 10.9 TCR = 331% of Furniture, laboratory-type (e.g., benches, cabinets, stools, tables), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metal Arc, Inc. safety composite

Metal Arc, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Metal Arc, Inc.: 9.5 → 14.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.41× in 2024

Metal Arc, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.0 from 9.5 in 2017 to 14.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337127 · Muskegon, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 331% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #20/21
  • PHOTO Winholt Equipment Gr…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Winholt Equipment Group (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metal Arc, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metal Arc, Inc. averages 10.9 TCR (331% of the Furniture, laboratory-type (e.g., benches, cabinets, stools, tables), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Metal Arc, Inc. TCR series: 2017=9.5 · 2021=10.9 · 2022=8.8 · 2024=14.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Metal Arc, Inc. falls in its industry

208 Furniture, laboratory-type (e. establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 21 Furniture, laboratory-type (e. employers in Michigan.

Metal Arc, Inc. (106 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Metal Arc, Inc.
Metal Arc, Inc. (106 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Metal Arc, Inc. has more employees than the Furniture, laboratory-type (e.g., benche median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 14.4 4.4 13 0 0
2022 8.8 4.9 8 1 0
2021 10.9 6.8 8 0 0
2017 9.5 2.6 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337127 · MI · Muskegon

208 Furniture, laboratory-type (e.g., benches, cabinets, stools, tables), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 230 employers in Muskegon, 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 Winholt Equipment Group 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR WDM 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR DCI Inc 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smith Systems McKinney 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE FPAW LLC- Lansing 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Infrastrucutre Alternatives 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHRG DET Sales & Marketing 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Austin Co. Michigan 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Partners - Sherman Campus 3,461 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Partners-1500 E Sherman BLVD-MH-MI 2,598 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Partners - Hackley 1,329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Arena 861 FTE
NAT-TCR Chisholm Elementary 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 206 Avon 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Front Range Concrete, LLC 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Copiague 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Kensington 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valeron Strength Films 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cadiz Crude Fleet 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE EnovaPremier of Kentucky LLC 106 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, 2022, 2021, 2017. 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.