Painting metals and metal products for the trade · Michigan

52nd Paint Central

Kentwood, MI · ~145 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

52nd Paint Central runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Painting metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

52nd Paint Central: 4.3 TCR = 130% of Painting metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

52nd Paint Central safety composite

52nd Paint Central scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

52nd Paint Central: 2.9 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2024

52nd Paint Central's TCR rose 3.7 from 2.9 in 2020 to 6.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Kentwood, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #28/47
  • PHOTO Jupiter Coil Coating…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~145 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jupiter Coil Coating BB (0.0 TCR gap)

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52nd Paint Central in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 52nd Paint Central averages 4.3 TCR (130% of the Painting metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

52nd Paint Central TCR series: 2020=2.9 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where 52nd Paint Central falls in its industry

646 Painting metals and metal prod establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 47 Painting metals and metal prod employers in Michigan.

52nd Paint Central (145 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 52nd Paint Central
52nd Paint Central (145 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

52nd Paint Central has more employees than the Painting metals and metal products for t median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 6.7 2.7 10 0 0
2023 4.1 0.0 6 0 0
2022 4.2 2.8 6 0 0
2021 3.5 1.8 5 1 0
2020 2.9 1.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · MI · Kentwood

646 Painting metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 122 employers in Kentwood, 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 Jupiter Coil Coating BB 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lebanon, TN - MK Plant 12 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arizona Polymer Flooring 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR RIE Coatings, LLC Dubuque 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dutchman Tree Farms LLC 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gas Construction Northeast 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grunwell-Cashero Co 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley Electrical Contractors Inc. 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ventra Grand Rapids Plant 5 1,274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1 656 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Food Solutions H5 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trees LLC 484 346 FTE
NAT-TCR Vecenergy_Port Everglades Terminal 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Creative Discovery Museum 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fareway Stores, Inc. 639 Maquoketa 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilton Vancouver Washington 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE FMC - Mobile Site 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2315 Martins Supermarket 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miami Valley Steel Service 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE PAM Transport - Laredo, TX 145 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.