Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing · Michigan

Mitchell Plastics Sterling Heights

Sterling Heights, MI · ~166 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mitchell Plastics Sterling Heights runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Mitchell Plastics Sterling Heights: 2.7 TCR = 83% of Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mitchell Plastics Sterling Heights safety composite

Mitchell Plastics Sterling Heights scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

Mitchell Plastics Sterling Heights: 0.0 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.28× in 2024

Mitchell Plastics Sterling Heights's TCR rose 2.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Sterling Heights, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 83% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #76/218
  • PHOTO VISCOFAN USA INC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~166 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VISCOFAN USA INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mitchell Plastics Sterling Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mitchell Plastics Sterling Heights averages 2.7 TCR (83% of the Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Mitchell Plastics Sterling Heights TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=3.2 · 2022=3 · 2023=4 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Mitchell Plastics Sterling Heights falls in its industry

2,838 Motor vehicle moldings and ext establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #76 safest of 218 Motor vehicle moldings and ext employers in Michigan.

Mitchell Plastics Sterling Heights (166 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Mitchell Plastics Sterling Heights
Mitchell Plastics Sterling Heights (166 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Mitchell Plastics Sterling Heights has more employees than the Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, p median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 2.4 0.8 3 0 0
2023 4.0 1.3 6 0 0
2022 3.0 1.5 6 0 0
2020 3.2 0.5 6 0 0
2019 2.9 1.5 6 0 0
2018 3.7 2.1 7 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · MI · Sterling Heights

2,838 Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing 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 VISCOFAN USA INC 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atrium Windows & Door 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dimex 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Variform Kearney Plant 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE East Jordan Plastics East Jordan 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cooper Standard 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2169_3882 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aristo Industries 166 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 S04078 - Winston-Salem Hauling 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Alexandria 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Goshen 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Elementary 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE S04112 - WM of Nashville - Antioch Hauling 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elk River Ford, Inc. 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alcal Fremont Roofing 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental Express Driving Leasing 166 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.