Construction machinery manufacturing · Michigan

Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan

Houghton, MI · ~124 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Construction machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan: 5.8 TCR = 177% of Construction machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan safety composite

Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.6

2019→2024

Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan injury rate improved

Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan's TCR fell 2.6 from 3.5 in 2019 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.5 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=9.0 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333120 · Houghton, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 177% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/15
  • PHOTO Meeker Equipment Co …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meeker Equipment Co Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan averages 5.8 TCR (177% of the Construction machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan TCR series: 2019=3.5 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=9 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan falls in its industry

400 Construction machinery manufac establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 15 Construction machinery manufac employers in Michigan.

Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan (124 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan
Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan (124 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan has more employees than the Construction machinery manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2023 8.6 8.6 10 0 0
2022 8.1 7.4 8 3 0
2021 9.0 7.4 11 0 0
2020 4.9 2.0 5 0 0
2019 3.5 1.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333120 · MI · Houghton

400 Construction machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 19 employers in Houghton, 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 Meeker Equipment Co Inc 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BILJAX, INC. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Telsmith Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Halverson Wood Products Inc. 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hortech Inc. 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anderson Development Company 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE GM & Sons, Inc. 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE DC BYERS COMPANY 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2192 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2192 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rice Center 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Somero Enterprises, Inc. 122 FTE
NAT-TCR The Miriam Hospital 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Osakis Public School ISD #213 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Altamont 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Montgomery 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lake Forest Sunset Food Mart, Inc. 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE MMR Constructors, Inc. - Belle Chasse Operations 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Broadway-Columbia, A DoubleTree By Hilton 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE VIC 124 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.