Tempered glass made from purchased glass · Michigan

Paragon Tempered Glass Niles

Niles, MI · ~69 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Paragon Tempered Glass Niles runs at 465% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tempered glass made from purchased glass workplace, earning a grade F.

Paragon Tempered Glass Niles: 15.4 TCR = 465% of Tempered glass made from purchased glass BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paragon Tempered Glass Niles safety composite

Paragon Tempered Glass Niles scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 15% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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).

F

6/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Paragon Tempered Glass Niles: 13.5 → 18.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 18.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.35× in 2018

Paragon Tempered Glass Niles's TCR rose 5.2 from 13.5 in 2016 to 18.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327215 · Niles, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.4 · 465% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #19/20
  • PHOTO American Glass & Alu…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Glass & Aluminum Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Paragon Tempered Glass Niles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paragon Tempered Glass Niles averages 15.4 TCR (465% of the Tempered glass made from purchased glass BLS benchmark).

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

Paragon Tempered Glass Niles TCR series: 2016=13.5 · 2017=13.9 · 2018=18.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Paragon Tempered Glass Niles falls in its industry

441 Tempered glass made from purch establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

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 20 Tempered glass made from purch employers in Michigan.

Paragon Tempered Glass Niles (69 employees, TCR 15.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Paragon Tempered Glass Niles
Paragon Tempered Glass Niles (69 employees, TCR 15.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Paragon Tempered Glass Niles has fewer employees than the Tempered glass made from purchased glass median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2018 18.7 5.3 14 0 0
2017 13.9 5.9 6 1 1
2016 13.5 7.7 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327215 · MI · Niles

441 Tempered glass made from purchased glass employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 68 employers in Niles, 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 American Glass & Aluminum Inc 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Consolidated Glass 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR GLAZ-TECH DENVER 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7878_18687 15.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4605_10312 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (OH) 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works City of Wyoming 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE The LaSalle Group Inc 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Hospital Niles 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2010 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Hospital - Niles 331 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2010 331 FTE
NAT-TCR Newark Care and Rehabilitation 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Highland Springs Hospital 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Reilly Plating Co. 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ReinCoat, LLC 15.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holland - OM 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Logan Primary Care - Herrin 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cancer Center 69 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.