Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing · Michigan

Preferred Welding LLC

Holland, MI · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Preferred Welding LLC runs at 149% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Preferred Welding LLC: 4.9 TCR = 149% of Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Preferred Welding LLC safety composite

Preferred Welding LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Preferred Welding LLC: 0.0 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2022

Preferred Welding LLC's TCR rose 9.8 from 0.0 in 2021 to 9.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Holland, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 149% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #8/18
  • PHOTO Alloy Process Engine…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alloy Process Engineering, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Preferred Welding LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Preferred Welding LLC averages 4.9 TCR (149% of the Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Preferred Welding LLC TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=9.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Preferred Welding LLC falls in its industry

449 Plate work (e.g., bending, cut establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 18 Plate work (e.g., bending, cut employers in Michigan.

Preferred Welding LLC (45 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Preferred Welding LLC
Preferred Welding LLC (45 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Preferred Welding LLC has fewer employees than the Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punc median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2022 9.8 3.3 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · MI · Holland

449 Plate work (e.g., bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding), fabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 299 employers in Holland, 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 Alloy Process Engineering, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waste Gas Fabricating 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alloy Welding Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alloy Engineering Company- Berea 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grand Junction Office 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeWeerdt Poultry Farm, LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clare SC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas Sebold and Associates, Inc. 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR LG Energy Solutions - Holland 1,263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Haworth HQ 1,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Haworth Office 1,075 FTE
CITY-NEAR PADNOS 912 FTE
NAT-TCR HG780 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-WIMIL103 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 415112-Marcus Hook Po 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 120186-Alp-Carrier Annex 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wayne Residential 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stoneburner 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG1050 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE DNT at 380 45 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.