Inserts, cutting tool, manufacturing · Michigan

Sandvik West Branch

West Branch, MI · ~90 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sandvik West Branch runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Inserts, cutting tool, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Sandvik West Branch: 3.0 TCR = 90% of Inserts, cutting tool, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sandvik West Branch safety composite

Sandvik West Branch scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−5.9

2016→2017

Sandvik West Branch injury rate improved

Sandvik West Branch's TCR fell 5.9 from 5.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.9 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.9 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333515 · West Branch, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #24/40
  • PHOTO Elk Rapids Engineering
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elk Rapids Engineering (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sandvik West Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sandvik West Branch averages 3.0 TCR (90% of the Inserts, cutting tool, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sandvik West Branch TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2017=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Sandvik West Branch falls in its industry

221 Inserts, cutting tool, manufac establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #24 safest of 40 Inserts, cutting tool, manufac employers in Michigan.

Sandvik West Branch (90 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sandvik West Branch
Sandvik West Branch (90 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sandvik West Branch has more employees than the Inserts, cutting tool, manufacturing 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
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 5.9 1.0 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333515 · MI · West Branch

221 Inserts, cutting tool, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 36 employers in West Branch, 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 Elk Rapids Engineering 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hammill Co-op Tool 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Comet Roll & Machine Co 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR IMCO Carbide Tool Inc. 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Burgess Concrete Construction, Inc 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6663_15443 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Welch Foods Inc. Lawton 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Head Quarters 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5159 337 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5159 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR MidMichigan Medical Center - West Branch 292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Griffin Beverage CO West Branch 129 FTE
NAT-TCR AC Corporation - Winston-Salem 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dymax Corporation (HQ & Adhesives) 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Duvall Road 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Premier Tooling & Manufacturing, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of New Madrid LLC 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jade Equipment Corp. 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peapod S&S Framingham, Ma 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Augusta Nursing and Rehab 90 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.