Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing · Michigan

Straits Steel and Wire

Ludington, MI · ~32 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Straits Steel and Wire runs at 325% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Straits Steel and Wire: 10.7 TCR = 325% of Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Straits Steel and Wire safety composite

Straits Steel and Wire scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Straits Steel and Wire: 0.0 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 19.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2019

Straits Steel and Wire's TCR rose 11.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 11.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 19.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327390 · Ludington, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 325% of ind

  • DART 11.1 DART
  • RANK #17/21
  • PHOTO BUSH CONCRETE PRODUCTS
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BUSH CONCRETE PRODUCTS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Straits Steel and Wire in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Straits Steel and Wire averages 10.7 TCR (325% of the Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Straits Steel and Wire TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=12 · 2018=19.9 · 2019=11.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Straits Steel and Wire falls in its industry

790 Concrete products, precast (ex establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 21 Concrete products, precast (ex employers in Michigan.

Straits Steel and Wire (32 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Straits Steel and Wire
Straits Steel and Wire (32 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Straits Steel and Wire has fewer employees than the Concrete products, precast (except block median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2019 11.1 11.1 3 0 0
2018 19.9 12.0 5 0 0
2017 12.0 12.0 2 1 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327390 · MI · Ludington

790 Concrete products, precast (except block, brick and pipe), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 55 employers in Ludington, 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 BUSH CONCRETE PRODUCTS 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR E&C Precast Concrete, Inc. 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 107 Vinton 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MBO 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6801_15743 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Soil Dairy 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berrybrook 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Tawas 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Ludington Hospital - SHLH 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2102 294 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ludington 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2102 274 FTE
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0018 0564 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 5DH Suburban Pest Management LLC 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR RC 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Albany - 275 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cadet Plant 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Selco, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orlando SDO 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farmers Union Oil Company of Moorhead, MN Corporate Office 32 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.