Ball bearings manufacturing · Michigan

NSK Americas Inc.

Ann Arbor, MI · ~412 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NSK Americas Inc. runs at 12% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Ball bearings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

NSK Americas Inc.: 0.4 TCR = 12% of Ball bearings manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NSK Americas Inc. safety composite

NSK Americas Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

NSK Americas Inc. held a steady TCR band

NSK Americas Inc.'s TCR held near 0.2 from 0.5 in 2018 to 0.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 0.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.5 · 2019=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332991 · Ann Arbor, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 12% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO SKF USA Inc. - Lansd…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~412 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SKF USA Inc. - Lansdale Remote (0.0 TCR gap)

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NSK Americas Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NSK Americas Inc. averages 0.4 TCR (12% of the Ball bearings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

NSK Americas Inc. TCR series: 2018=0.5 · 2019=0.3 · BLS 3.3

Where NSK Americas Inc. falls in its industry

125 Ball bearings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 8 Ball bearings manufacturing employers in Michigan.

NSK Americas Inc. (412 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate NSK Americas Inc.
NSK Americas Inc. (412 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8

NSK Americas Inc. has more employees than the Ball bearings manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2019 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.5 0.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332991 · MI · Ann Arbor

125 Ball bearings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 271 employers in Ann Arbor, 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 SKF USA Inc. - Lansdale Remote 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NSK Corporation Ltd. 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schaeffler Group USA Inc. - Corp. & Engineering 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Regal Rexnord 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE MM1, Inc. 412 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Dearborn Heights 412 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Michigan Correctional Facility 412 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quinnesec Mill 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital-AnnArbor 5,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph Mercy Hospital-Ann Arbor 5,554 FTE
CITY-NEAR IHA Health Services Corporation 2,533 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thomson Reuters - Ann Arbor 1,090 FTE
NAT-TCR Austin 01 Center 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Williams Plant Services, LLC (All Locations) 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CSC Harligen 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-Texas District : SVC-San Antonio TX-USA 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE MS 5915 I 55 N Ste 120 412 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lantech 412 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bemis Corporate Offices 412 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inco / B82 412 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.