Poles, metal, merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Postle Extrusion

Cassopolis, MI · ~175 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Postle Extrusion runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Poles, metal, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Postle Extrusion: 5.3 TCR = 159% of Poles, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Postle Extrusion safety composite

Postle Extrusion scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.1

2016→2024

Postle Extrusion injury rate improved

Postle Extrusion's TCR fell 3.1 from 6.9 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.9 · 2017=5.8 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336213 · Cassopolis, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 159% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK P66
  • PHOTO CrossRoads Plant 503
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~175 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CrossRoads Plant 503 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Postle Extrusion in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Postle Extrusion averages 5.3 TCR (159% of the Poles, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Postle Extrusion TCR series: 2016=6.9 · 2017=5.8 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Postle Extrusion falls in its industry

97 Poles, metal, merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Postle Extrusion (175 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 165 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Postle Extrusion
Postle Extrusion (175 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 165 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Postle Extrusion has more employees than the Poles, metal, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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 3.8 3.2 6 0 0
2023 4.5 3.6 5 0 0
2017 5.8 4.4 16 0 0
2016 6.9 4.7 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336213 · MI · Cassopolis

97 Poles, metal, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 14 employers in Cassopolis, 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 CrossRoads Plant 503 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keystone RV Plant 2 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tiffin Motorhomes Inc. Winfield 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keystone RV Plant 704 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kenwal Steel Corp 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Xtreme Powerline Construction Inc 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dart Container Mason Cup Mfg. 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE UFP Grand Rapids 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midwest Energy Cooperative 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cass County Medical Care Facility 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midwest Energy & Communications 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cass County Medical Care Faciility 128 FTE
NAT-TCR Rosauers Supermarkets, Inc., #2 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kiel Center Partners, LP 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Omega Thermo Products LLC 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR IDA International Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Triangle Warehouse, Inc 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mansfield 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morrell Nursing Center 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kinetics Noise Control 175 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, 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.