Heat treating ovens, industrial process-type, manufacturing · Michigan

Premier Furnace Specialists, Inc.

Farmington Hills, MI · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Premier Furnace Specialists, Inc. runs at 250% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Heat treating ovens, industrial process-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Premier Furnace Specialists, Inc.: 8.3 TCR = 250% of Heat treating ovens, industrial process-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Premier Furnace Specialists, Inc. safety composite

Premier Furnace Specialists, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.9

2022→2024

Premier Furnace Specialists, Inc. injury rate improved

Premier Furnace Specialists, Inc.'s TCR fell 5.9 from 10.0 in 2022 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=10.0 · 2023=10.7 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333994 · Farmington Hills, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 250% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO Ajax Tocco Magnether…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ajax Tocco Magnethermic North Canton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Premier Furnace Specialists, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Premier Furnace Specialists, Inc. averages 8.3 TCR (250% of the Heat treating ovens, industrial process-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Premier Furnace Specialists, Inc. TCR series: 2022=10 · 2023=10.7 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Premier Furnace Specialists, Inc. falls in its industry

103 Heat treating ovens, industria establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #10 safest of 11 Heat treating ovens, industria employers in Michigan.

Premier Furnace Specialists, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 Premier Furnace Specialists, Inc.
Premier Furnace Specialists, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Premier Furnace Specialists, Inc. has fewer employees than the Heat treating ovens, industrial process- 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
2024 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2023 10.7 10.7 0 2 0
2022 10.0 5.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333994 · MI · Farmington Hills

103 Heat treating ovens, industrial process-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 168 employers in Farmington Hills, 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 Ajax Tocco Magnethermic North Canton 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solar Products Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thermal Engineering Corporation 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ProTech Thermal Services 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms Sturgis 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE BE Cultivation 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4605_15228 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willard DeHaan & Son Grnhs 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centria Healthcare LLC 3,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2250-517 2,497 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beechview Elementary 1,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR Facilities Management 1,317 FTE
NAT-TCR Elmonica 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR K&M Tire - Mustang 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Prairie Polymers, LLC dba Industrial Molded Rubber 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mills Brothers Masonry Contracting, LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greiner Electric of Wyoming 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caliber Sealing Solutions 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE ServiceMaster DSI-Wichita 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hickory 21 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.