Painting and wallpapering · Michigan

Dave Cole Decorators

Sparta, MI · ~53 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dave Cole Decorators runs at 227% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Painting and wallpapering workplace, earning a grade F.

Dave Cole Decorators: 6.4 TCR = 227% of Painting and wallpapering BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dave Cole Decorators safety composite

Dave Cole Decorators scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Dave Cole Decorators: 6.1 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Dave Cole Decorators's TCR rose 5.6 from 6.1 in 2017 to 11.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Sparta, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 227% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/14
  • PHOTO R.Bros Painting,Inc
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R.Bros Painting,Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dave Cole Decorators in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dave Cole Decorators averages 6.4 TCR (227% of the Painting and wallpapering BLS benchmark).

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

Dave Cole Decorators TCR series: 2017=6.1 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=7.6 · 2023=11.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Dave Cole Decorators falls in its industry

582 Painting and wallpapering establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 14 Painting and wallpapering employers in Michigan.

Dave Cole Decorators (53 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dave Cole Decorators
Dave Cole Decorators (53 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Dave Cole Decorators has more employees than the Painting and wallpapering median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2023 11.7 0.0 4 0 0
2022 7.6 2.5 3 0 0
2021 5.2 5.2 2 1 0
2020 6.8 6.8 3 0 0
2019 5.3 1.8 3 0 0
2018 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2017 6.1 1.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · MI · Sparta

582 Painting and wallpapering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 33 employers in Sparta, 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 R.Bros Painting,Inc 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steve Reiff, Inc.-Indiana 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Architectural Coatings, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jc's Painting & Coatings, Inc. 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE EDL- Lansing Office 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Energy - Newaygo 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gas Construction Livonia 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Contractors, Inc. 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Agrico Labor LLC 559 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Formulations 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal-Mogul Powertrain 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Lakes Division 149 FTE
NAT-TCR Hilmar Lumber Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Northwest Interiors LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Island Lake Center 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR KPC Promise Hopsital of Phoenix 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE WS Electrical & Air Conditioning, Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Bronze Craft Corp. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Universal Medical Resources, Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Century Volkswagen 53 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. 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.