General-purpose industrial machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Primeway Tool & Engineering

Madison Heights, MI · ~17 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Primeway Tool & Engineering runs at 398% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-purpose industrial machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Primeway Tool & Engineering: 8.8 TCR = 398% of General-purpose industrial machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Primeway Tool & Engineering safety composite

Primeway Tool & Engineering scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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)
F 8.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

Primeway Tool & Engineering: 4.8 → 19.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Primeway Tool & Engineering's TCR rose 15.0 from 4.8 in 2017 to 19.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Madison Heights, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 398% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #53/57
  • PHOTO Casco Equipment Nort…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Casco Equipment North Corporation (0.1 TCR gap)

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Primeway Tool & Engineering in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Primeway Tool & Engineering averages 8.8 TCR (398% of the General-purpose industrial machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Primeway Tool & Engineering TCR series: 2017=4.8 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=19.7 · 2024=19.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Primeway Tool & Engineering falls in its industry

911 General-purpose industrial mac establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #53 safest of 57 General-purpose industrial mac employers in Michigan.

Primeway Tool & Engineering (17 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Primeway Tool & Engineering
Primeway Tool & Engineering (17 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Primeway Tool & Engineering has fewer employees than the General-purpose industrial machinery and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 19.8 0.0 3 0 0
2023 19.7 0.0 2 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.7 0.0 1 0 0
2020 6.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 4.1 0.0 0 1 0
2018 8.6 8.6 2 0 0
2017 4.8 4.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · MI · Madison Heights

911 General-purpose industrial machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 107 employers in Madison Heights, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Casco Equipment North Corporation 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Groff Tractor & Equipment, Inc. - Cranberry Township 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Toll Company 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR US WY Casper 5164 W Yellowstone 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE KBIC-Marquette 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Christman Facility Solutions LLC Grand Rapids 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hydaker-Wheatlake Grand Rapids 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nagel Construction 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR MADISON HEIGHTS (MIMAD) 774 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIMAD - MADISON HEIGHTS 749 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-MIDET183 668 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIDET183 ASCENSION MACOMB-OAKLAND HOSP - MADISON HEIGHTS 509 FTE
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #166 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dean Steel Buildings, Inc 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Littlestown Foundry, Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Metal Works Inc 8.8 TCR

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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.