Hammer forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Michigan

Trenton Forging Company

Trenton, MI · ~89 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Trenton Forging Company runs at 157% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hammer forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade D.

Trenton Forging Company: 5.2 TCR = 157% of Hammer forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trenton Forging Company safety composite

Trenton Forging Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Trenton Forging Company: 5.4 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2024

Trenton Forging Company's TCR rose 0.9 from 5.4 in 2018 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Trenton, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 157% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #12/21
  • PHOTO General Dynamics OTS…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Dynamics OTS (Wilkes-Barre), LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trenton Forging Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trenton Forging Company averages 5.2 TCR (157% of the Hammer forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Trenton Forging Company TCR series: 2018=5.4 · 2019=2.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=10.4 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Trenton Forging Company falls in its industry

241 Hammer forgings made from purc establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 21 Hammer forgings made from purc employers in Michigan.

Trenton Forging Company (89 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Trenton Forging Company
Trenton Forging Company (89 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Trenton Forging Company has more employees than the Hammer forgings made from purchased iron median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 6.3 5.3 5 1 0
2023 10.4 6.3 9 1 0
2022 6.1 2.0 5 1 1
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.8 1.9 3 0 0
2018 5.4 1.8 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · MI · Trenton

241 Hammer forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 36 employers in Trenton, 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 General Dynamics OTS (Wilkes-Barre), LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walker Forge, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gauthier Industries Inc 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pearce Foundry 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE West Branch SC 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Kalamazoo-Public Services-Harrison 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Balkema Excavating, Inc 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE 28_22 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2250-7 1,315 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trenton South Engine Plant 892 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trenton Engine Plant North 794 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Tool & Engineering 597 FTE
NAT-TCR 40505 - CAPSTONE FAMILY DOLLAR Maquoketa IA 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR RVI-Cuthbert 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR AFP Distributors Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Log Creek Thinning Inc 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of New Prague 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dove Canyon Golf Club 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sacramento Hcc/Hvc 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minneapolis Mn Harbor Light 89 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.