Pastes, adhesive, manufacturing · Michigan

Seal Bond Inc - NS1

Norton Shores, MI · ~73 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Seal Bond Inc - NS1 runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pastes, adhesive, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Seal Bond Inc - NS1: 6.3 TCR = 191% of Pastes, adhesive, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Seal Bond Inc - NS1 safety composite

Seal Bond Inc - NS1 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−0.6

2023→2024

Seal Bond Inc - NS1 injury rate improved

Seal Bond Inc - NS1's TCR fell 0.6 from 6.6 in 2023 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.6 · 2024=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Norton Shores, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 191% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #20/24
  • PHOTO ICP Choice Adhesives…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ICP Choice Adhesives Buchanan (0.0 TCR gap)

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Seal Bond Inc - NS1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Seal Bond Inc - NS1 averages 6.3 TCR (191% of the Pastes, adhesive, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Seal Bond Inc - NS1 TCR series: 2023=6.6 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Seal Bond Inc - NS1 falls in its industry

287 Pastes, adhesive, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 24 Pastes, adhesive, manufacturin employers in Michigan.

Seal Bond Inc - NS1 (73 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Seal Bond Inc - NS1
Seal Bond Inc - NS1 (73 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Seal Bond Inc - NS1 has more employees than the Pastes, adhesive, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 6.0 1.5 4 0 0
2023 6.6 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · MI · Norton Shores

287 Pastes, adhesive, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 40 employers in Norton Shores, 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 ICP Choice Adhesives Buchanan 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roberts Capitol, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silco, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dhm Adhesives, Inc 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Field Work 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michiana SC 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-County Electric- Portland 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Powerline, LLC 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson Technology, Inc. - Norton 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Norton Shores, MI 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR MillerKnoll Muskegon 358 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knoll 312 FTE
NAT-TCR S&R Truck 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ilpeo - Peoria 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kyacd - Louisville Centennial Hub 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR EMS - Oak Meadows Senior Lvg 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE San San Diego International Airport 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cardinal Health PR 218 Inc 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huntingdon Fiberglass Products, LLC 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holmes Lumber 495 73 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. 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.