COMPONENT PLANT · Michigan

Carter Component Plant 541

Lansing, MI · ~44 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carter Component Plant 541 runs at 300% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical COMPONENT PLANT workplace, earning a grade F.

Carter Component Plant 541: 9.9 TCR = 300% of COMPONENT PLANT BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carter Component Plant 541 safety composite

Carter Component Plant 541 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

Carter Component Plant 541: 2.6 → 13.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 23.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Carter Component Plant 541's TCR rose 10.6 from 2.6 in 2018 to 13.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 23.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321214 · Lansing, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 300% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/16
  • PHOTO Associated Truss & L…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Associated Truss & Lumber CO. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carter Component Plant 541 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carter Component Plant 541 averages 9.9 TCR (300% of the COMPONENT PLANT BLS benchmark).

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

Carter Component Plant 541 TCR series: 2018=2.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=9 · 2022=14 · 2023=23 · 2024=13.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Carter Component Plant 541 falls in its industry

421 COMPONENT PLANT establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 16 COMPONENT PLANT employers in Michigan.

Carter Component Plant 541 (44 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Carter Component Plant 541
Carter Component Plant 541 (44 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0

Carter Component Plant 541 has fewer employees than the COMPONENT PLANT median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.0. 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 13.2 0.0 9 0 0
2023 23.0 0.0 12 0 0
2022 14.0 0.0 6 0 0
2021 9.0 0.0 4 0 0
2020 7.4 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.6 2.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321214 · MI · Lansing

421 COMPONENT PLANT employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 410 employers in Lansing, 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 Associated Truss & Lumber CO. 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilson Lumber Company, Inc. CBS 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR U.S. Truss Company - Cortland 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Truss Plant 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE NW Planning & Design Center 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEMCO Energy Gas Company - Macomb 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Genesee County Water & Waste Services 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anthony Ragnone Treatment Plant 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lansing Delta Township Assembly 2,608 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Lansing Delta Township Assembly 2,446 FTE
CITY-NEAR LCC - Main 2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lansing Grand River Assembly 1,648 FTE
NAT-TCR Schemel Companies, Inc. 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Stearns -Plant 1 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterford Lakes 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Boondocks 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kempsville Building Materials 475 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carter Lumber 143 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Finance 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingston Residence of Fort Wayne 44 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.