Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing · Michigan

Perceptive Industries Inc

Plainwell, MI · ~41 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Perceptive Industries Inc runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Perceptive Industries Inc: 4.5 TCR = 136% of Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Perceptive Industries Inc safety composite

Perceptive Industries Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Perceptive Industries Inc: 2.9 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2021

Perceptive Industries Inc's TCR rose 3.2 from 2.9 in 2020 to 6.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333994 · Plainwell, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 136% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #5/11
  • PHOTO Precision Thermal Pr…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Precision Thermal Processing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Perceptive Industries Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Perceptive Industries Inc averages 4.5 TCR (136% of the Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Perceptive Industries Inc TCR series: 2020=2.9 · 2021=6.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Perceptive Industries Inc falls in its industry

103 Ceramic kilns and furnaces man establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 11 Ceramic kilns and furnaces man employers in Michigan.

Perceptive Industries Inc (41 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Perceptive Industries Inc
Perceptive Industries Inc (41 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Perceptive Industries Inc has fewer employees than the Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2021 6.1 3.1 2 0 0
2020 2.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333994 · MI · Plainwell

103 Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 43 employers in Plainwell, 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 Precision Thermal Processing 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kanthal 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TPI Corporation 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Thermal Systems 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Otsego 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Service Center 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zolman Restoration, LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nugent Builders, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS Plainwell INC 1,307 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2061 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2061 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR 191 - Plainwell 249 FTE
NAT-TCR 44181o - Little Rock Dc 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 49221a - Concord Dc 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR HRP Construction, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Cottonwood-Oak Creek Sd #6 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Medicalodges Clay Center 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCRM Ready Mix Delivery South 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE LMI - Everett MC 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE 42511e - Montage Dc 41 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.