Manufacture of passenger vehicle tires · South Carolina

Michelin US5 Lexington SC

Lexington, SC · ~1,621 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Michelin US5 Lexington SC runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Manufacture of passenger vehicle tires workplace, earning a grade A.

Michelin US5 Lexington SC: 1.1 TCR = 32% of Manufacture of passenger vehicle tires BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Michelin US5 Lexington SC safety composite

Michelin US5 Lexington SC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Michelin US5 Lexington SC: 0.8 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2018

Michelin US5 Lexington SC's TCR rose 0.4 from 0.8 in 2017 to 1.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326211 · Lexington, SC AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #5/19
  • PHOTO Michelin North Ameri…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~1,621 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Michelin North America - US4 Dothan (0.0 TCR gap)

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Michelin US5 Lexington SC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Michelin US5 Lexington SC averages 1.1 TCR (32% of the Manufacture of passenger vehicle tires BLS benchmark).

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

Michelin US5 Lexington SC TCR series: 2017=0.8 · 2018=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Michelin US5 Lexington SC falls in its industry

114 Manufacture of passenger vehic establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 19 Manufacture of passenger vehic employers in South Carolina.

Michelin US5 Lexington SC (1,621 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 393 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Michelin US5 Lexington SC
Michelin US5 Lexington SC (1,621 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 393 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Michelin US5 Lexington SC has more employees than the Manufacture of passenger vehicle tires median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2018 1.3 1.0 20 0 0
2017 0.8 0.6 6 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326211 · SC · Lexington

114 Manufacture of passenger vehicle tires employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 136 employers in Lexington, SC · 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 Michelin North America - US4 Dothan 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Michelin NA - US4 Dothan Facility 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heavy Duty Tire & Tread d/b/a Highlands Tire & Service 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Michelin US 10 Anderson SC 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE County of Lexington 1,630 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spartanburg County 1,633 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4701-340 1,642 FTE
STATE-SIZE CB&I AREVA MOX Services 1,649 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michelin North America US7 838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia 760 FTE
CITY-NEAR US Foods Columbia, SC 731 FTE
CITY-NEAR Support Center 531 FTE
NAT-TCR FFT 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Saueressig New Berlin WI 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rivers Edge Nursing and Rehabilitation 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tetra Dynamics 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manufacture of Seats 1,621 FTE
NAT-SIZE Consumer US Skillman 1,621 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bristol Regional Medical Center 1,620 FTE
NAT-SIZE WLCH-Wesley Long Community Hospital 1,622 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.