Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel · Michigan

Penn Automotive - Waterford

Name: Penn Automotive - Waterford Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Waterford, MI · ~67 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Penn Automotive - Waterford runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel workplace, earning a grade A.

Penn Automotive - Waterford: 1.5 TCR = 47% of Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Penn Automotive - Waterford safety composite

Penn Automotive - Waterford scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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).

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Penn Automotive - Waterford: 0.0 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2017

Penn Automotive - Waterford's TCR rose 3.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331221 · Waterford, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 47% of ind

DART 1.5 DART
RANK #1/15
PHOTO WS Cleveland
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WS Cleveland (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.6
Monarch Steel

1.6
Rassey Industr

1.6
This site

1.5
WS Cleveland

1.5

What this shows Penn Automotive - Waterford averages 1.5 TCR (47% of the Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel BLS benchmark).

Penn Automotive - Waterford TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Penn Automotive - Waterford falls in its industry

206 Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

Grade A

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 15 Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g employers in Michigan.

Penn Automotive - Waterford (67 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Penn Automotive - Waterford has fewer employees than the Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, pl 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
2017	3.1	1.5	2	0	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331221 · MI · Waterford

206 Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 51 employers in Waterford, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	WS Cleveland	CUYAHOGA HEIGHTS, OH	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ellwood Crankshaft and Machine	HERMITAGE, PA	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Monarch Steel Company, Inc.	CLEVELAND, OH	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Rassey Industries, Inc.	SHELBY TOWNSHIP, MI	1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Cadillac SC	CADILLAC	67 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CS Erickson	GRAND HAVEN	67 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hamilton Contracting LLC	FARMINGTON HILSS	67 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Leading Edge - Wyoming	WYOMING	67 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Oakland Schools	Waterford	677 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Meijer	Waterford	270 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Meijer 053	Waterford	267 FTE
CITY-NEAR	053 - Waterford	Waterford	261 FTE
NAT-TCR	Cascades Tissue Group New York Inc - Mechanicville	Mechanicville, NY	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Caradon	Chatsworth, GA	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	BUNN - Ash Grove	Springfield, IL	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bernhard MCC L.L.C. MLA	Metairie, LA	1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	N and R of Strafford Inc	Strafford, MO	67 FTE
NAT-SIZE	N and R of Republic LLC	Republic, MO	67 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cincinnati Holiday Inn	Cincinnati, OH	67 FTE
NAT-SIZE	HBSHSENC20	Morrisville, NC	67 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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