Resistance welding equipment manufacturing · Michigan

Welform Electrodes, Inc.

Warren, MI · ~27 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Welform Electrodes, Inc. runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Resistance welding equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Welform Electrodes, Inc.: 6.1 TCR = 185% of Resistance welding equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Welform Electrodes, Inc. safety composite

Welform Electrodes, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Welform Electrodes, Inc.: 5.8 → 11.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2021

Welform Electrodes, Inc.'s TCR rose 6.2 from 5.8 in 2017 to 11.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333992 · Warren, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 185% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #15/16
  • PHOTO ARCOS Industries LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ARCOS Industries LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Welform Electrodes, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Welform Electrodes, Inc. averages 6.1 TCR (185% of the Resistance welding equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Welform Electrodes, Inc. TCR series: 2017=5.8 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=11.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Welform Electrodes, Inc. falls in its industry

129 Resistance welding equipment m establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 16 Resistance welding equipment m employers in Michigan.

Welform Electrodes, Inc. (27 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Welform Electrodes, Inc.
Welform Electrodes, Inc. (27 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Welform Electrodes, Inc. has fewer employees than the Resistance welding equipment manufacturi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2021 11.9 4.0 3 0 0
2020 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.4 0.0 0 1 0
2018 5.4 2.7 2 0 0
2017 5.8 2.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333992 · MI · Warren

129 Resistance welding equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 290 employers in Warren, 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 ARCOS Industries LLC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire and Marine Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weld-Rite Services Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Lincoln Electric Company - Mentor 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Badger Evergreen Nursery LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE K Drive Greenhouse Co 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (MO) 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Luurtsema Sales Inc. 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Warren Technical Center 22,693 FTE
CITY-NEAR GM Global Technical Center 21,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR Warren Truck Assembly Plant 3,804 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-MIDET153 1,903 FTE
NAT-TCR Propipe Technologies, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR OR-Salem RC 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 78th & Dodge Goodwill Retail Store 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Manufacturing : Kiel 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eaton Street Lumber LLC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Radico, Inc. - Company 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cook Sales Inc. Missouri 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Triple A 27 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.