Mesh made from purchased wire · Michigan

Wayne Wire Cloth Products

Kalkaska, MI · ~94 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wayne Wire Cloth Products runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Mesh made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade B.

Wayne Wire Cloth Products: 1.9 TCR = 59% of Mesh made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wayne Wire Cloth Products safety composite

Wayne Wire Cloth Products scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

Wayne Wire Cloth Products: 1.4 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2024

Wayne Wire Cloth Products's TCR rose 1.1 from 1.4 in 2023 to 2.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · Kalkaska, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 59% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO Wire-Mesh Products, …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wire-Mesh Products, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wayne Wire Cloth Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wayne Wire Cloth Products averages 1.9 TCR (59% of the Mesh made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

Wayne Wire Cloth Products TCR series: 2023=1.4 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Wayne Wire Cloth Products falls in its industry

270 Mesh made from purchased wire establishments

Safer than 77% 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 #2 safest of 9 Mesh made from purchased wire employers in Michigan.

Wayne Wire Cloth Products (94 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Wayne Wire Cloth Products
Wayne Wire Cloth Products (94 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Wayne Wire Cloth Products has more employees than the Mesh made from purchased wire median and a lower 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
2024 2.5 1.7 3 0 0
2023 1.4 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · MI · Kalkaska

270 Mesh made from purchased wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 21 employers in Kalkaska, 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 Wire-Mesh Products, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ready Cable - Houston 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mazzella Lifting Technologies (Baltimore) 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Rigging & Supply 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gaylord Field Office 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Presque Isle Power Plant 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE avb 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3229_6219 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kalkaska Memorial Health Center 508 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern A-1 Services - All Locations 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern A-1 Services - Kalkaska 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michigan Caterpillar Kalkaska 89 FTE
NAT-TCR Embassy Suites North Canton 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Morris South LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Barry Electric Cooperative, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Trident Steel Corporation 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trailblazer Transportation 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palm Bay 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Tier Pet Nutrition 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Middle School 94 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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