Coating metals and metal products for the trade · Michigan

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Lake Orion, MI

Lake Orion, MI · ~62 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Lake Orion, MI runs at 17% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Coating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade A.

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Lake Orion, MI: 0.6 TCR = 17% of Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Lake Orion, MI safety composite

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Lake Orion, MI scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Lake Orion, MI held a steady TCR band

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Lake Orion, MI's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Lake Orion, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 17% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/47
  • PHOTO Praxair Surface Tech…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Thermal Spray) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Lake Orion, MI in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Lake Orion, MI averages 0.6 TCR (17% of the Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Lake Orion, MI TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Lake Orion, MI falls in its industry

646 Coating metals and metal produ establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 47 Coating metals and metal produ employers in Michigan.

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Lake Orion, MI (62 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Lake Orion, MI
Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Lake Orion, MI (62 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Lake Orion, MI has more employees than the Coating metals and metal products for th median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · MI · Lake Orion

646 Coating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 37 employers in Lake Orion, 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 Praxair Surface Technologies Inc. (Thermal Spray) 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BlueScope Coated Products / Metal Coaters 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AZZ Galvanizing - Dixon 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt & Whitney Automation 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Riveridge Land Company 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshall 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lombardo Homes of St Louis 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orion Assembly 1,071 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZPON 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kay Automotive Graphics 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Complete Automation 236 FTE
NAT-TCR Tahlequah Lumber Company, Inc 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR National Church Residences 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR D.P. Electric Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR BizLink Technology, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc - Amherst, NY 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diamond Construction Company 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE MGM Contracting Inc. 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE nexAir Okeechobee Plant 62 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.