Transmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Michigan

BorgWarner Powertrain Technical Center

Auburn Hills, MI · ~591 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BorgWarner Powertrain Technical Center runs at 10% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Transmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

BorgWarner Powertrain Technical Center: 0.5 TCR = 10% of Transmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BorgWarner Powertrain Technical Center safety composite

BorgWarner Powertrain Technical Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

BorgWarner Powertrain Technical Center held a steady TCR band

BorgWarner Powertrain Technical Center's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.6 in 2016 to 0.5 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.6 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.6 · 2017=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336350 · Auburn Hills, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 10% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #6/61
  • PHOTO Dyersburg Facility
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~591 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dyersburg Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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BorgWarner Powertrain Technical Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BorgWarner Powertrain Technical Center averages 0.5 TCR (10% of the Transmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

BorgWarner Powertrain Technical Center TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2017=0.5 · BLS 5.4

Where BorgWarner Powertrain Technical Center falls in its industry

320 Transmissions and parts, autom establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 61 Transmissions and parts, autom employers in Michigan.

BorgWarner Powertrain Technical Center (591 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate BorgWarner Powertrain Technical Center
BorgWarner Powertrain Technical Center (591 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

BorgWarner Powertrain Technical Center has more employees than the Transmissions and parts, automotive, tru median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2017 0.5 0.2 3 0 0
2016 0.6 0.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336350 · MI · Auburn Hills

320 Transmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 215 employers in Auburn Hills, 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 Dyersburg Facility 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TRW Automotive-Atkins 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paris Plant 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reman Drivetrain Facility 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Motor City Electric Co. 590 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flint Engine Operations 592 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shape Corp - 14600 172nd Ave. 592 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson County Intermediate School District 590 FTE
CITY-NEAR FCA US Headquarters and Technology Center 14,088 FTE
CITY-NEAR FCA US Headquarters and Technology 12,609 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continental - Auburn Hills North 1,318 FTE
CITY-NEAR CTC Pilot Plant 1,094 FTE
NAT-TCR Clean Venture Inc. - Transportation 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lone Star Tubular Operations 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dyersburg Facility 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MTKA01 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE WI-Green Bay-Glory 591 FTE
NAT-SIZE CNH_Fargo 591 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toledo Zoo 591 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Princeton) 591 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: 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.