Steel investment foundries · Michigan

Shellcast, Inc.

Montague, MI · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shellcast, Inc. runs at 227% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel investment foundries workplace, earning a grade F.

Shellcast, Inc.: 7.5 TCR = 227% of Steel investment foundries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shellcast, Inc. safety composite

Shellcast, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

−1.7

2022→2024

Shellcast, Inc. injury rate improved

Shellcast, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.7 from 6.0 in 2022 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.0 · 2023=12.1 · 2024=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331512 · Montague, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 227% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Pure Castings Co.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pure Castings Co. (0.3 TCR gap)

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Shellcast, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shellcast, Inc. averages 7.5 TCR (227% of the Steel investment foundries BLS benchmark).

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

Shellcast, Inc. TCR series: 2022=6 · 2023=12.1 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Shellcast, Inc. falls in its industry

89 Steel investment foundries establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Steel investment foundries employers in Michigan.

Shellcast, Inc. (24 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Shellcast, Inc.
Shellcast, Inc. (24 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Shellcast, Inc. has fewer employees than the Steel investment foundries median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2023 12.1 0.0 2 0 0
2022 6.0 6.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331512 · MI · Montague

89 Steel investment foundries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 11 employers in Montague, 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 Pure Castings Co. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 5 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miller Castings, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SIGNICAST LLC 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Medina Dairy, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sturgis 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE CE Innovation Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Filtration and Meter Shop 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR chassix - Montague 657 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aludyne 483 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aludyne Montague, LLC 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montague 100 FTE
NAT-TCR 7551-Pdllc-Lycoming College 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Conner Prairie Museum 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Chem-K, LLC 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR F M A Landscape Services, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Permac Industries 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bk 3993 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE R.M. Pyles Boys Camp- Camp 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paloma 24 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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