Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · Michigan

Cole Century Inc.

Portage, MI · ~49 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cole Century Inc. runs at 149% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade D.

Cole Century Inc.: 5.1 TCR = 149% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cole Century Inc. safety composite

Cole Century Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Cole Century Inc.: 1.6 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

Cole Century Inc.'s TCR rose 6.5 from 1.6 in 2017 to 8.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Portage, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 149% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #91/106
  • PHOTO BROWN DAUB DODGE INC
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BROWN DAUB DODGE INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cole Century Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cole Century Inc. averages 5.1 TCR (149% of the Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS benchmark).

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

Cole Century Inc. TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2018=7.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=7.4 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Cole Century Inc. falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #91 safest of 106 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in Michigan.

Cole Century Inc. (49 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cole Century Inc.
Cole Century Inc. (49 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Cole Century Inc. has fewer employees than the Automobile dealers, new only or new and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 8.2 6.1 4 0 0
2023 8.6 2.1 4 0 0
2022 7.3 2.4 3 0 0
2021 7.4 2.5 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.6 5.7 4 0 0
2017 1.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · MI · Portage

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only or new and used employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 136 employers in Portage, 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 BROWN DAUB DODGE INC 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Davis Chev 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Don Hattan Chevrolet 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BAKERSFIELD MITSUBISHI, BAKERSFIELD MAZDA 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1003 Canal St 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miller-Davis Company 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gundlach Champion, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE CLOSNER CONSTRUCTION & SALES INC 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Instruments - 1941 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Medical 2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summit Polymers, Inc. 1,619 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Corporation Shared Services 768 FTE
NAT-TCR Quality Mould Inc 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Isle at Watercrest Bryan 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR BCI Exteriors, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Puente Hills Gas-to-Energy Facility 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Compton 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE HNCGB03 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ramona Disposal 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeside- EDCO 49 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, 2017. 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.