Stainless steel castings (except investment), unfinished, manufacturing · Oregon

Portland Kettle Works, LLC

Portland, OR · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Portland Kettle Works, LLC runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Stainless steel castings (except investment), unfinished, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Portland Kettle Works, LLC: 4.0 TCR = 121% of Stainless steel castings (except investment), unfinished, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Portland Kettle Works, LLC safety composite

Portland Kettle Works, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Portland Kettle Works, LLC: 4.0 → 144.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 144.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Portland Kettle Works, LLC's TCR rose 140.8 from 4.0 in 2020 to 144.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331513 · Portland, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 121% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO Asama Coldwater Mfg …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Asama Coldwater Mfg - Michigan (0.0 TCR gap)

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Portland Kettle Works, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Portland Kettle Works, LLC averages 4.0 TCR (121% of the Stainless steel castings (except investment), unfinished, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Portland Kettle Works, LLC TCR series: 2020=4 · 2023=144.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Portland Kettle Works, LLC falls in its industry

94 Stainless steel castings (exce establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Stainless steel castings (exce employers in Oregon.

Portland Kettle Works, LLC (22 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 7.3 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Portland Kettle Works, LLC
Portland Kettle Works, LLC (22 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 7.3

Portland Kettle Works, LLC has fewer employees than the Stainless steel castings (except investm median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.3. 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
2023 144.8 0.0 1 0 0
2020 4.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331513 · OR · Portland

94 Stainless steel castings (except investment), unfinished, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 1,728 employers in Portland, OR · 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 Asama Coldwater Mfg - Michigan 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tonkawa Foundry, Inc 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Granite City Plant 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amsted Rail Kansas City 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hammelmans Floral, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Means Nursery Inc (River Road) 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE HASTINGS BULB GROWERS, INC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ekstrom & Schmidt Nursery, LLC 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHSU Main Campus 18,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR349 PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CTR-PORTLA 4,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR346 PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CTR-PORTLAND 3,684 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000530 3,498 FTE
NAT-TCR Theisen's of Dewitt 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Southeast Georgia Health System - Brunswick Campus 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gordo Hatchery 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Crossover @ Las Colinas 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Timber Division 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMT Alpine Electric, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE JMC Management Co. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baker Hughes LLC Bakersfield Blend Plant 22 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: 2023, 2020. 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.