Metal stampings (except automotive, cans, coins), unfinished, manufacturing · Michigan

Technique, Inc. Water Street

Jackson, MI · ~61 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Technique, Inc. Water Street runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Metal stampings (except automotive, cans, coins), unfinished, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Technique, Inc. Water Street: 5.0 TCR = 153% of Metal stampings (except automotive, cans, coins), unfinished, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Technique, Inc. Water Street safety composite

Technique, Inc. Water Street scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Technique, Inc. Water Street: 0.0 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.6× in 2024

Technique, Inc. Water Street's TCR rose 10.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 10.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332119 · Jackson, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 153% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #8/18
  • PHOTO MiTek USA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MiTek USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Technique, Inc. Water Street in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Technique, Inc. Water Street averages 5.0 TCR (153% of the Metal stampings (except automotive, cans, coins), unfinished, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Technique, Inc. Water Street TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=10.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Technique, Inc. Water Street falls in its industry

477 Metal stampings (except automo establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 18 Metal stampings (except automo employers in Michigan.

Technique, Inc. Water Street (61 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Technique, Inc. Water Street
Technique, Inc. Water Street (61 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Technique, Inc. Water Street has fewer employees than the Metal stampings (except automotive, cans median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 10.1 8.1 10 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332119 · MI · Jackson

477 Metal stampings (except automotive, cans, coins), unfinished, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 207 employers in Jackson, 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 MiTek USA 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomas Erie 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR GMP Metal Products 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Technique, Inc. 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sietsema Farms Feeds 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolverine Service Center 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.R. Heineman & Sons, Inc. 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4785_10911 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Allegiance Health 4,779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Hospital Campus 3,076 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Jackson 2,045 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford- Jackson Downtown Campus 1,201 FTE
NAT-TCR J.A.C. Ag Services, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Queen City Awning 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Vision Mechanical 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Oaks at Eagles Landing 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Wakefield Corporation 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fire Training Structures 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summit Hill Senior Living 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE MDM Scaffolding 61 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.

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