Starch glues manufacturing · Michigan

Eftec North America, LLC

Taylor, MI · ~103 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Eftec North America, LLC runs at 206% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Starch glues manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Eftec North America, LLC: 6.8 TCR = 206% of Starch glues manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Eftec North America, LLC safety composite

Eftec North America, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.4

2020→2021

Eftec North America, LLC injury rate improved

Eftec North America, LLC's TCR fell 3.4 from 8.5 in 2020 to 5.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=8.5 · 2021=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Taylor, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 206% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #21/24
  • PHOTO Functional Coatings …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Functional Coatings LLC Seabrook Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Eftec North America, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Eftec North America, LLC averages 6.8 TCR (206% of the Starch glues manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Eftec North America, LLC TCR series: 2020=8.5 · 2021=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Eftec North America, LLC falls in its industry

287 Starch glues manufacturing establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 24 Starch glues manufacturing employers in Michigan.

Eftec North America, LLC (103 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Eftec North America, LLC
Eftec North America, LLC (103 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Eftec North America, LLC has more employees than the Starch glues manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2021 5.1 5.1 5 0 0
2020 8.5 1.1 1 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · MI · Taylor

287 Starch glues manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 116 employers in Taylor, 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 Functional Coatings LLC Seabrook Facility 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Uniseal Grove Facility 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accumetric LLC DBA Soudal 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manus Products Waconia 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE MKG Norton Shores SC 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkels & McCoy - Canton, MI - Verizon 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE VanLaan Concrete Construction 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bumler Mechanical 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Detroit 1,670 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2250-5 1,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR Team Solutions Corporate US 528 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2912 435 FTE
NAT-TCR Haggard Electric Contracting 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Masonry 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Crosby Excavating, Inc 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Parkview Home 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE All-Star-Seymour 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lumberton NAC International Paper 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Distribution Center 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ulland Brothers, Inc. 103 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: 2021, 2020. 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.