Machine shops · Montana

Wood's Powr-Grip Co., Inc.

Laurel, MT · ~139 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wood's Powr-Grip Co., Inc. runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade C.

Wood's Powr-Grip Co., Inc.: 3.0 TCR = 90% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wood's Powr-Grip Co., Inc. safety composite

Wood's Powr-Grip Co., Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

Wood's Powr-Grip Co., Inc. held a steady TCR band

Wood's Powr-Grip Co., Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 3.9 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.9 · 2018=0.8 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Laurel, MT AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Wolfe and Swickard M…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wolfe and Swickard Machine Co., Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wood's Powr-Grip Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wood's Powr-Grip Co., Inc. averages 3.0 TCR (90% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Wood's Powr-Grip Co., Inc. TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2018=0.8 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Wood's Powr-Grip Co., Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Machine shops employers in Montana.

Wood's Powr-Grip Co., Inc. (139 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Wood's Powr-Grip Co., Inc.
Wood's Powr-Grip Co., Inc. (139 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Wood's Powr-Grip Co., Inc. has more employees than the Machine shops median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 3.9 1.6 4 1 0
2023 2.7 2.7 2 1 0
2022 3.6 1.8 4 0 0
2018 0.8 0.8 0 1 0
2016 3.9 1.3 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · MT · Laurel

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 16 employers in Laurel, MT · 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 Wolfe and Swickard Machine Co., Inc 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johnson Precision Productcs Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elizabeth Scheu & Kniss 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brighton NC Machine 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Barnard Construction CO Inc 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4054-000004041 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Martel Construction, Inc. 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-1904 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Laurel Refinery 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHS Laurel Refinery 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4412 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4412 283 FTE
NAT-TCR Z Transportation LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gordon Composites 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ATAP, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR AITX Railcar Services LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0624 - Holland Mall Drive 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Price Chopper #400 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farm and Fleet of LaCrosse 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farm and Fleet of Kankakee 139 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, 2018, 2016. 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.