Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing · Michigan

Cooper Standard Automotive - East Tawas Plant

East Tawas, MI · ~88 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cooper Standard Automotive - East Tawas Plant runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Cooper Standard Automotive - East Tawas Plant: 3.6 TCR = 110% of Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cooper Standard Automotive - East Tawas Plant safety composite

Cooper Standard Automotive - East Tawas Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

Cooper Standard Automotive - East Tawas Plant held a steady TCR band

Cooper Standard Automotive - East Tawas Plant's TCR held near 0.1 from 5.5 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.5 · 2017=1.0 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=8.3 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · East Tawas, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 110% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #106/218
  • PHOTO Rieke - New Albany
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rieke - New Albany (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cooper Standard Automotive - East Tawas Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cooper Standard Automotive - East Tawas Plant averages 3.6 TCR (110% of the Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cooper Standard Automotive - East Tawas Plant TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2017=1 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=8.3 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Cooper Standard Automotive - East Tawas Plant falls in its industry

2,838 Motor vehicle moldings and ext establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #106 safest of 218 Motor vehicle moldings and ext employers in Michigan.

Cooper Standard Automotive - East Tawas Plant (88 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cooper Standard Automotive - East Tawas Plant
Cooper Standard Automotive - East Tawas Plant (88 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Cooper Standard Automotive - East Tawas Plant has fewer employees than the Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, p median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 5.6 2.8 4 0 0
2022 4.1 1.4 3 0 0
2021 8.3 2.8 6 0 0
2020 2.5 1.3 1 1 0
2019 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2018 1.1 1.1 0 1 0
2017 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2016 5.5 4.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · MI · East Tawas

2,838 Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 6 employers in East Tawas, 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 Rieke - New Albany 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Flange & MFG CO 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR NOV Fiberglass Systems 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR IMS Gear Georgia, LLC 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fluresh Adrian 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water UEDCD 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCI Industries, Inc. 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE BIDIGARE CONTRACTORS, INC. 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tawas Tool Company 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tawas Tool Company (1&2) 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Tawas 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR S03661 - Tawas Transfer Station 29 FTE
NAT-TCR Coherent 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TLC Building Components, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Agrace Hospice/Dane County 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Farm & Garden 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spee Dee Delivery Service, Inc - Des Moines 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Driv-Lok, Inc. 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Grove At Washington 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vallarta Supermarkets #5 88 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.