Resurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway · Michigan

City of Detroit Department of Public Works - Street Maintenance Division

Detroit, MI · ~173 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Detroit Department of Public Works - Street Maintenance Division runs at 576% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Resurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Detroit Department of Public Works - Street Maintenance Division: 16.1 TCR = 576% of Resurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Detroit Department of Public Works - Street Maintenance Division safety composite

City of Detroit Department of Public Works - Street Maintenance Division scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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).

F

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

City of Detroit Department of Public Works - Street Maintenance Division: 12.7 → 24.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 24.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2019

City of Detroit Department of Public Works - Street Maintenance Division's TCR rose 12.3 from 12.7 in 2016 to 24.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Detroit, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.1 · 576% of ind

  • DART 12.5 DART
  • RANK #133/139
  • PHOTO STREET DEPARTMENT/OP…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 112 inj
  • SIZE ~173 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STREET DEPARTMENT/OPERATIONS PW (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Detroit Department of Public Works - Street Maintenance Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Detroit Department of Public Works - Street Maintenance Division averages 16.1 TCR (576% of the Resurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS benchmark).

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

City of Detroit Department of Public Works - Street Maintenance Division TCR series: 2016=12.7 · 2017=12 · 2018=15 · 2019=24.9 · BLS 2.8

Where City of Detroit Department of Public Works - Street Maintenance Division falls in its industry

4,078 Resurfacing, highway, road, st establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #133 safest of 139 Resurfacing, highway, road, st employers in Michigan.

City of Detroit Department of Public Works - Street Maintenance Division (173 employees, TCR 16.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Detroit Department of Public Works - Street Maintenance Division
City of Detroit Department of Public Works - Street Maintenance Division (173 employees, TCR 16.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

City of Detroit Department of Public Works - Street Maintenance Division has more employees than the Resurfacing, highway, road, street, brid median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2019 24.9 12.5 39 1 0
2018 15.0 7.5 22 0 0
2017 12.0 7.8 26 0 0
2016 12.7 10.1 25 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MI · Detroit

4,078 Resurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 673 employers in Detroit, 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 STREET DEPARTMENT/OPERATIONS PW 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR D1 Rodenburg Yard 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Catts Construction Inc. 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Primco, Inc. 16.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE LGC Global, Inc. 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Salt-St. Clair 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kentwood Packaging Corp 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE W. R. Grace South Haven 173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Hospital 8,838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Detroit Campus 8,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - DTW 6,640 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Corporation 5,241 FTE
NAT-TCR Diveresicare of Winfield 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Current Designs 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2430 - Chatsworth Fumigation 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodlands Memory Care of Rockland 16.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Glenburnie Rehabilitation & Nursing Center 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Horizons Marlborough 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE Samet Corporation 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE WS Packaging Group, Inc - Mason/WSA 173 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: 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.