Forklift repair and maintenance services · Michigan

Alta Equipment Company Sterling Heights

Sterling Heights, MI · ~52 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alta Equipment Company Sterling Heights runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Forklift repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade F.

Alta Equipment Company Sterling Heights: 4.7 TCR = 226% of Forklift repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alta Equipment Company Sterling Heights safety composite

Alta Equipment Company Sterling Heights scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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)
F 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.7

2016→2020

Alta Equipment Company Sterling Heights injury rate improved

Alta Equipment Company Sterling Heights's TCR fell 7.7 from 7.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.7 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=4.0 · 2019=10.1 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Sterling Heights, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.7 · 226% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #88/114
  • PHOTO Hussmann Services Co…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hussmann Services Corporation - Houston (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alta Equipment Company Sterling Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alta Equipment Company Sterling Heights averages 4.7 TCR (226% of the Forklift repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

Alta Equipment Company Sterling Heights TCR series: 2016=7.7 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=4 · 2019=10.1 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.1

Where Alta Equipment Company Sterling Heights falls in its industry

2,560 Forklift repair and maintenanc establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #88 safest of 114 Forklift repair and maintenanc employers in Michigan.

Alta Equipment Company Sterling Heights (52 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Alta Equipment Company Sterling Heights
Alta Equipment Company Sterling Heights (52 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Alta Equipment Company Sterling Heights has more employees than the Forklift repair and maintenance services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 10.1 8.1 5 0 0
2018 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2017 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2016 7.7 3.8 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · MI · Sterling Heights

2,560 Forklift repair and maintenance services 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 Hussmann Services Corporation - Houston 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crown Lift Trucks Detroit 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crown Lift Trucks Southern New England 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Savannah Grange Depot 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries, Inc - Webberville 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenwood Energy Center 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hastings SC 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dollins Construction Inc dba Cowhy Hayes 52 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 ARYZTA - Cayce 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Aluma-Form Walnut Facility 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 537 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 266 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pruhs Construction Company 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co. Inc. - Lawrenceville, GA 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palo Alto 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 271 52 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.