Metals service centers · Michigan

Tempered and Specialty Metals

Sterling Heights, MI · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tempered and Specialty Metals runs at 279% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metals service centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Tempered and Specialty Metals: 6.1 TCR = 279% of Metals service centers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tempered and Specialty Metals safety composite

Tempered and Specialty Metals scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Tempered and Specialty Metals: 0.0 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2022

Tempered and Specialty Metals's TCR rose 11.5 from 0.0 in 2018 to 11.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Sterling Heights, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.1 · 279% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #46/60
  • PHOTO TW Metals - Seattle
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TW Metals - Seattle (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tempered and Specialty Metals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tempered and Specialty Metals averages 6.1 TCR (279% of the Metals service centers BLS benchmark).

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

Tempered and Specialty Metals TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=13 · 2020=0 · 2022=11.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Tempered and Specialty Metals falls in its industry

1,299 Metals service centers establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 60 Metals service centers employers in Michigan.

Tempered and Specialty Metals (20 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Tempered and Specialty Metals
Tempered and Specialty Metals (20 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Tempered and Specialty Metals has fewer employees than the Metals service centers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2022 11.5 5.8 1 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 13.0 6.5 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · MI · Sterling Heights

1,299 Metals service centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 195 employers in Sterling Heights, 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 TW Metals - Seattle 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ryerson Milwaukee 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemung Supply Corporation 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ryerson - Indianapolis 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tholrund Brothers 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indeck Niles Energy Center 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michigan Solar Solutions West 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE WTB Tuscola Bay Wind Plant 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Heights Assembly Plant 5,783 FTE
CITY-NEAR STERLING PLNT 2,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Stamping Plant 2,115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Conti, LLC 1,892 FTE
NAT-TCR 4795-PD-FAT-FRESNO-FAT-PDMT 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Harter's Trash and Recycling 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-01820 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-ILARL213 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eugene/Springfield - Fire Department 1 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Porterville Electric Co., Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson Branch 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Double J Manufacturing & Repair 20 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.