Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) · Michigan

City of Sterling Heights

Sterling Heights, MI · ~912 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Sterling Heights runs at 271% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Sterling Heights: 8.7 TCR = 271% of Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Sterling Heights safety composite

City of Sterling Heights scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−14.7

2020→2024

City of Sterling Heights injury rate improved

City of Sterling Heights's TCR fell 14.7 from 18.7 in 2020 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 18.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=18.7 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=4.0 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Sterling Heights, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 271% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #64/79
  • PHOTO Oficina Municipal Ma…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 176 inj
  • SIZE ~912 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oficina Municipal Manejo de Emergencia (OMME) (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Sterling Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Sterling Heights averages 8.7 TCR (271% of the Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) BLS benchmark).

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

City of Sterling Heights TCR series: 2020=18.7 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=4 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Sterling Heights falls in its industry

1,010 Executive offices, federal, st establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #64 safest of 79 Executive offices, federal, st employers in Michigan.

City of Sterling Heights (912 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Sterling Heights
City of Sterling Heights (912 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Sterling Heights has more employees than the Executive offices, federal, state, and l median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 4.0 3.9 37 0 0
2023 4.0 3.1 36 0 0
2022 8.1 3.7 54 0 0
2020 18.7 10.9 49 57 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · MI · Sterling Heights

1,010 Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) 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 Oficina Municipal Manejo de Emergencia (OMME) 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hendricks County Government 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Liberty 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rockaway Township 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE PADNOS 912 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6043 912 FTE
STATE-SIZE Magna International Newaygo 911 FTE
STATE-SIZE US MI Holland 11768 James St 910 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 2144 - Steeplechase 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction Ventures, Inc. 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 0804 - Mason City 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The City of Bloomington - Public Works 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tippecanoe County Government 912 FTE
NAT-SIZE 07-GIDDINGS 912 FTE
NAT-SIZE BAE Systems 912 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.