Machine shops · Michigan

Metric Manufacturing

Lowell, MI · ~89 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metric Manufacturing runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade B.

Metric Manufacturing: 1.9 TCR = 57% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metric Manufacturing safety composite

Metric Manufacturing scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

Metric Manufacturing: 2.4 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Metric Manufacturing's TCR rose 0.4 from 2.4 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Lowell, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/111
  • PHOTO Enjet Aero Erie, Inc.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Enjet Aero Erie, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metric Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metric Manufacturing averages 1.9 TCR (57% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Metric Manufacturing TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=0.9 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Metric Manufacturing falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 111 Machine shops employers in Michigan.

Metric Manufacturing (89 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Metric Manufacturing
Metric Manufacturing (89 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Metric Manufacturing has more employees than the Machine shops median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 2.8 0.0 2 0 0
2023 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2022 3.7 0.0 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2016 2.4 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · MI · Lowell

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 32 employers in Lowell, 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 Enjet Aero Erie, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARC Drilling LLC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quadrant Tool & Mfg. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holland 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE West Branch SC 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Kalamazoo-Public Services-Harrison 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Balkema Excavating, Inc 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE 28_22 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell Area Schools 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Litehouse Inc. - Lowell 373 FTE
CITY-NEAR Litehouse Foods Inc 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR 205 - Lowell 273 FTE
NAT-TCR General Atomics - Poway - A36 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR General Atomics - Poway - A21 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Parkview Home 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Association for Individual Development 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE General Atomics - Poway - A25 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hormann LLC - Montgomery 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Datatronics 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iowa Steel & Wire Inc. 89 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, 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.