Motor vehicle parts and accessories, new, merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Lane Automotive, Inc.

Watervliet, MI · ~342 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lane Automotive, Inc. runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Motor vehicle parts and accessories, new, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Lane Automotive, Inc.: 3.4 TCR = 153% of Motor vehicle parts and accessories, new, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lane Automotive, Inc. safety composite

Lane Automotive, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Lane Automotive, Inc.: 2.3 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.32× in 2021

Lane Automotive, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.2 from 2.3 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423120 · Watervliet, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 153% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #25/52
  • PHOTO THE PARTS HOUSE LOC 5
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~342 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: THE PARTS HOUSE LOC 5 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lane Automotive, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lane Automotive, Inc. averages 3.4 TCR (153% of the Motor vehicle parts and accessories, new, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Lane Automotive, Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2021=4.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Lane Automotive, Inc. falls in its industry

950 Motor vehicle parts and access establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 52 Motor vehicle parts and access employers in Michigan.

Lane Automotive, Inc. (342 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Lane Automotive, Inc.
Lane Automotive, Inc. (342 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Lane Automotive, Inc. has more employees than the Motor vehicle parts and accessories, new median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 4.4 4.4 15 3 0
2016 2.3 0.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423120 · MI · Watervliet

950 Motor vehicle parts and accessories, new, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 5 employers in Watervliet, 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 THE PARTS HOUSE LOC 5 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NEXGEN Industryz 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR EAPW Loc 2 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flag City Truck & Equipment 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 5160 342 FTE
STATE-SIZE 000006872 - GM WARREN ANNEX B - HOUSEKEEPING 342 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Birmingham 342 FTE
STATE-SIZE Universal Piping Industries 341 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Community Hospital Watervliet 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Hospital - Watervliet 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Best Way Disposal Inc., Watervliet 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR orchard hill sanitary landfill 19 FTE
NAT-TCR Gec Durham Industries 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Parts House Loc 5 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dickson Process Systems LLC 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ARaymond Tinnerman Industrial 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE NKA 342 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grappone Mgmt Co., Inc. (01640) 342 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Field Energy Project 342 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weigand Construction Inc. 342 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, 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.