Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing · Michigan

Oakwood Metal Fabricating

Taylor, MI · ~386 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Oakwood Metal Fabricating runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Oakwood Metal Fabricating: 4.8 TCR = 88% of Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Oakwood Metal Fabricating safety composite

Oakwood Metal Fabricating scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

−4.5

2016→2024

Oakwood Metal Fabricating injury rate improved

Oakwood Metal Fabricating's TCR fell 4.5 from 7.4 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.4 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=5.0 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336370 · Taylor, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 88% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #79/165
  • PHOTO Engineering Specialt…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 88 inj
  • SIZE ~386 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Engineering Specialties, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Oakwood Metal Fabricating in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Oakwood Metal Fabricating averages 4.8 TCR (88% of the Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Oakwood Metal Fabricating TCR series: 2016=7.4 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=5 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 5.4

Where Oakwood Metal Fabricating falls in its industry

510 Job stampings, automotive, met establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #79 safest of 165 Job stampings, automotive, met employers in Michigan.

Oakwood Metal Fabricating (386 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 05001,0001,500 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Oakwood Metal Fabricating
Oakwood Metal Fabricating (386 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Oakwood Metal Fabricating has more employees than the Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 2.9 0.8 14 0 0
2023 4.1 1.7 24 0 0
2022 5.0 2.4 23 0 0
2021 4.2 1.7 19 1 0
2016 7.4 4.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336370 · MI · Taylor

510 Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 116 employers in Taylor, 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 Engineering Specialties, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Die, Tool & Machine 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burkland Inc 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schaller Corporation Plant 6 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greenly Street 386 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Quality Foods 386 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer 226 386 FTE
STATE-SIZE WOODBRIDGE (MIWOO) 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR Detroit 1,670 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2250-5 1,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR Team Solutions Corporate US 528 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2912 435 FTE
NAT-TCR Component plant 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lux Row Distillers, LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Global Texas Concessions 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Channel Fish Processing Co Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE KCC 386 FTE
NAT-SIZE 20185 Naperville 386 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prime Now LLC - UNY1 386 FTE
NAT-SIZE CCS Equipment Supply, Inc. DBA Surebuilt 386 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, 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.