Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers · Michigan

42231d - Sterling Heights

Sterling Heights, MI · ~111 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

42231d - Sterling Heights runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

42231d - Sterling Heights: 1.3 TCR = 58% of Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

42231d - Sterling Heights safety composite

42231d - Sterling Heights scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

42231d - Sterling Heights: 1.3 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.07× in 2020

42231d - Sterling Heights's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.3 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424450 · Sterling Heights, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.3 · 58% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #2/23
  • PHOTO CC 44917 POMPANO BEA…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CC 44917 POMPANO BEACH BULK 24 (0.0 TCR gap)

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42231d - Sterling Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 42231d - Sterling Heights averages 1.3 TCR (58% of the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

42231d - Sterling Heights TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=2.6 · BLS 2.2

Where 42231d - Sterling Heights falls in its industry

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa establishments

Safer than 85% 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 #2 safest of 23 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa employers in Michigan.

42231d - Sterling Heights (111 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 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 0200400600 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate 42231d - Sterling Heights
42231d - Sterling Heights (111 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8

42231d - Sterling Heights has more employees than the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers median and a lower 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
2020 2.6 2.6 3 0 0
2019 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2016 1.3 1.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424450 · MI · Sterling Heights

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers 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 CC 44917 POMPANO BEACH BULK 24 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 44611J - HARRISONBURG BIN 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 44321D - FORT MYERS 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 43131A - SUMMIT 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2552-Constantine, MI 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE KEPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. d/b/a ACD.net 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utility Contracting Company 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEI Michigan, LLC 111 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 2515-Grinnell, IA 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Converse, Tx (Shared) 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 650 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cox Communications - 901 Building 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stenstrom Excavation and Blacktop Group 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE FI - Highland Pines, LLC 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE FI - The Abbey, LLC 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Obetz DC 111 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.