Jigs and fixtures for use with machine tools manufacturing · Michigan

Smith Brothers Tool

Shelby Twp, MI · ~53 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smith Brothers Tool runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Jigs and fixtures for use with machine tools manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Smith Brothers Tool: 4.6 TCR = 140% of Jigs and fixtures for use with machine tools manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smith Brothers Tool safety composite

Smith Brothers Tool scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

Smith Brothers Tool: 3.3 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Smith Brothers Tool's TCR rose 4.4 from 3.3 in 2022 to 7.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333514 · Shelby Twp, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 140% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #78/131
  • PHOTO Met-L-Tec LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Met-L-Tec LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smith Brothers Tool in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smith Brothers Tool averages 4.6 TCR (140% of the Jigs and fixtures for use with machine tools manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Smith Brothers Tool TCR series: 2022=3.3 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Smith Brothers Tool falls in its industry

387 Jigs and fixtures for use with establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #78 safest of 131 Jigs and fixtures for use with employers in Michigan.

Smith Brothers Tool (53 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 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 Smith Brothers Tool
Smith Brothers Tool (53 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Smith Brothers Tool has fewer employees than the Jigs and fixtures for use with machine t 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 7.8 0.0 4 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2022 3.3 1.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333514 · MI · Shelby Twp

387 Jigs and fixtures for use with machine tools manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 13 employers in Shelby Twp, 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 Met-L-Tec LLC 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Syst-A-Matic Tool & Design Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Form G Tech Co. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Douglas Machine 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE EDL- Lansing Office 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Energy - Newaygo 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gas Construction Livonia 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Contractors, Inc. 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plastic Trends 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR EliteBLU Delivery Services 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR Epic Equipment & Engineering 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR G&G Industries, Inc 81 FTE
NAT-TCR Greensboro Plasma Center 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - HCL2 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Roseville - Maintenance Garage 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1538 Ne Colorado Springs 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vorwaller & Brooks Inc 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE MercyCare South 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE GFL Solid Waste Midwest LLC-Horicon HC 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE DIN4 53 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.