General freight trucking, local · Michigan

MTS Coldwater

Coldwater, MI · ~27 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MTS Coldwater runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade D.

MTS Coldwater: 7.9 TCR = 175% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MTS Coldwater safety composite

MTS Coldwater scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

MTS Coldwater: 3.2 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 16.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2019

MTS Coldwater's TCR rose 5.1 from 3.2 in 2016 to 8.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Coldwater, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.9 · 175% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #93/103
  • PHOTO San Antonio DSD
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: San Antonio DSD (0.0 TCR gap)

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MTS Coldwater in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MTS Coldwater averages 7.9 TCR (175% 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 Coldwater TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=16.7 · 2019=8.4 · BLS 4.5

Where MTS Coldwater falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 22% 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 #93 safest of 103 General freight trucking, loca employers in Michigan.

MTS Coldwater (27 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 Coldwater
MTS Coldwater (27 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

MTS Coldwater has fewer 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
2019 8.4 8.4 1 0 0
2018 16.7 8.4 4 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2016 3.2 3.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · MI · Coldwater

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 64 employers in Coldwater, 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 San Antonio DSD 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Teal's Express Inc 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR UDNW 5002 (Ankeny - F) 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Trucking 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Badger Evergreen Nursery LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE K Drive Greenhouse Co 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (MO) 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Luurtsema Sales Inc. 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coldwater Facility 926 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6043 912 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6043 795 FTE
CITY-NEAR ProMedica Coldwater Regional Hospital 537 FTE
NAT-TCR UTS of the Ozarks, Inc. DBA Ozark Utility 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Coarc-Second Street 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Waters of Princeton 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rangen Inc 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Murray Building Company 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flowery Branch Feed Mill 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Granite Valley Forest Products 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE main 27 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.

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