Spray-on bedliner installation for trucks · Michigan

Ground Effects Flint

Flint, MI · ~219 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ground Effects Flint runs at 394% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Spray-on bedliner installation for trucks workplace, earning a grade F.

Ground Effects Flint: 8.3 TCR = 394% of Spray-on bedliner installation for trucks BLS 2.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ground Effects Flint safety composite

Ground Effects Flint scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−4.3

2016→2020

Ground Effects Flint injury rate improved

Ground Effects Flint's TCR fell 4.3 from 9.6 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.6 · 2018=10.8 · 2019=7.5 · 2020=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811198 · Flint, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 394% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #18/21
  • PHOTO Ground Effects, LLC …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 75 inj
  • SIZE ~219 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ground Effects, LLC - Rotunda (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ground Effects Flint in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ground Effects Flint averages 8.3 TCR (394% of the Spray-on bedliner installation for trucks BLS benchmark).

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

Ground Effects Flint TCR series: 2016=9.6 · 2018=10.8 · 2019=7.5 · 2020=5.3 · BLS 2.1

Where Ground Effects Flint falls in its industry

66 Spray-on bedliner installation establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 21 Spray-on bedliner installation employers in Michigan.

Ground Effects Flint (219 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ground Effects Flint
Ground Effects Flint (219 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Ground Effects Flint has more employees than the Spray-on bedliner installation for truck median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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
2020 5.3 0.8 14 0 0
2019 7.5 3.1 19 0 0
2018 10.8 7.1 29 0 0
2016 9.6 6.4 13 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811198 · MI · Flint

66 Spray-on bedliner installation for trucks employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 260 employers in Flint, 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 Ground Effects, LLC - Rotunda 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ground Effects Westlake 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR STTC Bethlehem 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ronkonkoma 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6375_16048 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Steel City LLC. 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dearborn Sausage Company Inc 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE Autodie 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR GM Flint Truck Assembly 5,164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flint Assembly 3,920 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hurley Medical Center 2,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR McLaren Flint 2,477 FTE
NAT-TCR PLS Mechanical & PLS Services 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon Transportation Services : PDX5 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Orchard Villa-Legacy Health Services 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Klondike Center 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Vincent De Paul Residence 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Daifuku America eFA Division 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jostens - Shelbyville 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rock Creek 219 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.