Forklift repair and maintenance services · Michigan

Alta Equipment Company Traverse City

Traverse City, MI · ~27 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alta Equipment Company Traverse City runs at 332% 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 Traverse City: 7.0 TCR = 332% of Forklift repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alta Equipment Company Traverse City safety composite

Alta Equipment Company Traverse City scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Alta Equipment Company Traverse City: 0.0 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Alta Equipment Company Traverse City's TCR rose 6.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Traverse City, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 332% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #107/114
  • PHOTO Busch, SVG Austin
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Busch, SVG Austin (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alta Equipment Company Traverse City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alta Equipment Company Traverse City averages 7.0 TCR (332% 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 Traverse City TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=9.2 · 2018=11 · 2019=9.3 · 2020=6.3 · 2021=6.1 · BLS 2.1

Where Alta Equipment Company Traverse City falls in its industry

2,560 Forklift repair and maintenanc establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #107 safest of 114 Forklift repair and maintenanc employers in Michigan.

Alta Equipment Company Traverse City (27 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 Traverse City
Alta Equipment Company Traverse City (27 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Alta Equipment Company Traverse City has fewer 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
2021 6.1 0.0 2 0 0
2020 6.3 6.3 2 0 0
2019 9.3 6.2 3 0 0
2018 11.0 3.7 3 0 0
2017 9.2 9.2 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · MI · Traverse City

2,560 Forklift repair and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 197 employers in Traverse City, 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 Busch, SVG Austin 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Service Quick (Sylmar) 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flowserve Fairfield QRC 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Power Group - Perkins Ridgefield 7.0 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 Munson Medical Center 3,845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munson Healthcare 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Michigan College 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 569 FTE
NAT-TCR Berry Material Handling- Topeka 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastern Division Roanoke 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Scarborough Store 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amerhart Ltd. - Wind Mill 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eaton Street Lumber LLC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Radico, Inc. - Company 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magco, Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cook Sales Inc. Missouri 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, 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.