Motor vehicle seats manufacturing · Michigan

Kiekert USA, Inc (R&D Location)

Wixom, MI · ~79 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kiekert USA, Inc (R&D Location) runs at 10% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Motor vehicle seats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Kiekert USA, Inc (R&D Location): 0.6 TCR = 10% of Motor vehicle seats manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kiekert USA, Inc (R&D Location) safety composite

Kiekert USA, Inc (R&D Location) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Kiekert USA, Inc (R&D Location): 0.9 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.96× in 2024

Kiekert USA, Inc (R&D Location)'s TCR rose 0.7 from 0.9 in 2019 to 1.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336360 · Wixom, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 10% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #11/100
  • PHOTO Mayco Shelby
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mayco Shelby (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kiekert USA, Inc (R&D Location) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kiekert USA, Inc (R&D Location) averages 0.6 TCR (10% of the Motor vehicle seats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kiekert USA, Inc (R&D Location) TCR series: 2019=0.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 5.4

Where Kiekert USA, Inc (R&D Location) falls in its industry

384 Motor vehicle seats manufactur establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 100 Motor vehicle seats manufactur employers in Michigan.

Kiekert USA, Inc (R&D Location) (79 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 245 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 01,0002,0003,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kiekert USA, Inc (R&D Location)
Kiekert USA, Inc (R&D Location) (79 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 245 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Kiekert USA, Inc (R&D Location) has fewer employees than the Motor vehicle seats manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2024 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2023 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336360 · MI · Wixom

384 Motor vehicle seats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 116 employers in Wixom, 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 Mayco Shelby 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Faurecia - Masonic 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR JVIS USA LLC Shelby I Headquarters 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trident - Turnbull MD 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fontanesi and Kann 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Van Dyken Mechanical 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grapids Home Services 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sharon's Heating & Air Conditioning 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carl Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Material Handling 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gas Construction Southeast 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wixom Trijicon 328 FTE
NAT-TCR Topcu Tile + Stone 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Utility Maintenance Contractors LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 00515 Hunter Plant 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR R&T Farm Management, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE CareCore at Lima 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE J. Masterson Construction Corp. 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crew Point Logistics LLC 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anderson Truss Co 79 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.