Spray-on bedliner installation for trucks · Michigan

Ground Effects Sterling Heights

Sterling Heights, MI · ~263 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ground Effects Sterling Heights runs at 315% 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 Sterling Heights: 6.6 TCR = 315% of Spray-on bedliner installation for trucks BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ground Effects Sterling Heights safety composite

Ground Effects Sterling Heights scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Ground Effects Sterling Heights: 3.8 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2020

Ground Effects Sterling Heights's TCR rose 4.7 from 3.8 in 2018 to 8.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811198 · Sterling Heights, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 315% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #13/21
  • PHOTO Conlan - Romulus (Gr…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~263 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Conlan - Romulus (Great Lakes Tire) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ground Effects Sterling Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ground Effects Sterling Heights averages 6.6 TCR (315% 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 Sterling Heights TCR series: 2018=3.8 · 2019=7.5 · 2020=8.5 · BLS 2.1

Where Ground Effects Sterling Heights falls in its industry

66 Spray-on bedliner installation establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #13 safest of 21 Spray-on bedliner installation employers in Michigan.

Ground Effects Sterling Heights (263 employees, TCR 6.6) 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 Sterling Heights
Ground Effects Sterling Heights (263 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Ground Effects Sterling Heights 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 8.5 6.2 22 0 0
2019 7.5 5.1 19 3 0
2018 3.8 1.3 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811198 · MI · Sterling Heights

66 Spray-on bedliner installation for trucks employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 195 employers in Sterling Heights, 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 Conlan - Romulus (Great Lakes Tire) 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR STTC York 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ground Effects, LLC - Dearborn Facility 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ground Effects, LLC - Kansas City Facility 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Paslin - Cherry Creek 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5280 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE 019 - Norton Shores 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE 173 - Scio Twp 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Heights Assembly Plant 5,783 FTE
CITY-NEAR STERLING PLNT 2,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Stamping Plant 2,115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Conti, LLC 1,892 FTE
NAT-TCR Foley Products Company 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Warm Springs Sawmill 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rehabilitation Hospital, Navicent Health 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Heartland of Centerville 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elon Plant 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crane Payment Innovations - Malvern 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMC Steel California 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tosh Pork 263 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. 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.