Hammer forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Michigan

Midwest Tool and Cutlery Co. - Forge Division

Kalkaska, MI · ~24 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest Tool and Cutlery Co. - Forge Division runs at 281% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hammer forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade F.

Midwest Tool and Cutlery Co. - Forge Division: 9.3 TCR = 281% of Hammer forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest Tool and Cutlery Co. - Forge Division safety composite

Midwest Tool and Cutlery Co. - Forge Division scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.7

2016→2024

Midwest Tool and Cutlery Co. - Forge Division injury rate improved

Midwest Tool and Cutlery Co. - Forge Division's TCR fell 6.7 from 6.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 25.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.7 · 2017=25.3 · 2018=16.9 · 2019=8.8 · 2020=16.5 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Kalkaska, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 281% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/21
  • PHOTO Haven Steel Products
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Haven Steel Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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Midwest Tool and Cutlery Co. - Forge Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest Tool and Cutlery Co. - Forge Division averages 9.3 TCR (281% of the Hammer forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Midwest Tool and Cutlery Co. - Forge Division TCR series: 2016=6.7 · 2017=25.3 · 2018=16.9 · 2019=8.8 · 2020=16.5 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Midwest Tool and Cutlery Co. - Forge Division falls in its industry

241 Hammer forgings made from purc establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 21 Hammer forgings made from purc employers in Michigan.

Midwest Tool and Cutlery Co. - Forge Division (24 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 Midwest Tool and Cutlery Co. - Forge Division
Midwest Tool and Cutlery Co. - Forge Division (24 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Midwest Tool and Cutlery Co. - Forge Division has fewer employees than the Hammer forgings made from purchased iron median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.9 0.0 0 1 0
2021 4.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 16.5 16.5 3 0 0
2019 8.8 4.4 2 0 0
2018 16.9 12.7 4 0 0
2017 25.3 8.4 6 0 0
2016 6.7 3.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · MI · Kalkaska

241 Hammer forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 21 employers in Kalkaska, 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 Haven Steel Products 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brickham Stamping Co 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR RDF&P 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kropp Forge 9.5 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 Kalkaska Memorial Health Center 508 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern A-1 Services - All Locations 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern A-1 Services - Kalkaska 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wayne Wire Cloth Products 94 FTE
NAT-TCR Farnhamville 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Walls Inc-N.Charleston 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR New Mercer Commons 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Works and Engineering 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Charles H. Goebel & Sons, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Liberty 1214 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Electrical Services 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farm City Transport 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.