General freight trucking, local · Michigan

MTS Byron Center

Byron Center, MI · ~238 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

MTS Byron Center runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade C.

MTS Byron Center: 5.0 TCR = 111% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MTS Byron Center safety composite

MTS Byron Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

MTS Byron Center: 3.5 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2024

MTS Byron Center's TCR rose 0.4 from 3.5 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Byron Center, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 111% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #59/103
  • PHOTO Portland DSD
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 86 inj
  • SIZE ~238 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Portland DSD (0.0 TCR gap)

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MTS Byron Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MTS Byron Center averages 5.0 TCR (111% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

MTS Byron Center TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=5 · 2018=7.8 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=4.7 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 4.5

Where MTS Byron Center falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 46% 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 #59 safest of 103 General freight trucking, loca employers in Michigan.

MTS Byron Center (238 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate MTS Byron Center
MTS Byron Center (238 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

MTS Byron Center has more employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a higher 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
2024 3.9 3.1 10 0 0
2023 3.5 1.6 9 0 0
2020 4.7 2.4 10 0 0
2019 6.6 5.0 17 0 0
2018 7.8 2.9 19 0 0
2017 5.0 1.2 12 0 1
2016 3.5 1.5 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · MI · Byron Center

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 78 employers in Byron Center, 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 Portland DSD 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RAM Trucking Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olson Carriers Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Complete Logistics Company 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE West Michigan Branch 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE L3 Aviation Products 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concord Tool & Manufacturing 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lapeer Industries 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buist Electric 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lumbermen's Inc. Byron Center 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Masterpiece Flower Company LLC 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Eerden Trucking 254 FTE
NAT-TCR Ned Clyde Construction, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stericycle - Baltimore,MD-5901 Chemical 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR GRESHAM 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Innovative Builders of Alexandria, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE S04160 - Irvine Hauling 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE UMHoustonReliant955 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tam O'Shanter 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tennessee Aquarium 238 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.