Silicone (except resins) manufacturing · Michigan

Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant

Auburn, MI · ~246 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant runs at 6% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Silicone (except resins) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant: 0.2 TCR = 6% of Silicone (except resins) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant safety composite

Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 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%).

Rising injury rate

Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant: 0.0 → 0.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 0.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant's TCR rose 0.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Auburn, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 6% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/16
  • PHOTO Saint Charles Operat…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~246 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Saint Charles Operations - Taft (0.0 TCR gap)

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Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant averages 0.2 TCR (6% of the Silicone (except resins) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0.4 · 2019=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant falls in its industry

552 Silicone (except resins) manuf establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 16 Silicone (except resins) manuf employers in Michigan.

Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant (246 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant
Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant (246 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant has more employees than the Silicone (except resins) manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2019 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.4 0.0 0 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · MI · Auburn

552 Silicone (except resins) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 7 employers in Auburn, 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 Saint Charles Operations - Taft 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Dow Chemical Company - Bayport, TX 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nalco Champion - Corsicana 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albemarle Corporation - Pasadena 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Christman Constructors, Inc - Michigan 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seneca Foods 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fairview 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE SK Siltron CSS - Bay City 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR SK Siltron CSS - Auburn 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dow Chemical - Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR SK Siltron CSS 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2797_5341 35 FTE
NAT-TCR OK0030CV3 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR AK Steel - Zanesville Works 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Zimmerbiomet Spine 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Shelly Northwest construction 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elliott Aviation MLI 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apex International - Chaska 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeview Care Center 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Union County 246 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.