Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing · Michigan

Patterson Assembly

Kentwood, MI · ~120 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Patterson Assembly runs at 263% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Patterson Assembly: 8.7 TCR = 263% of Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Patterson Assembly safety composite

Patterson Assembly scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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 8.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.7

2016→2017

Patterson Assembly injury rate improved

Patterson Assembly's TCR fell 2.7 from 10.0 in 2016 to 7.3 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.0 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.0 · 2017=7.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Kentwood, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 263% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #197/218
  • PHOTO Trilogy Plastics Pla…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trilogy Plastics Plant 2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Patterson Assembly in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Patterson Assembly averages 8.7 TCR (263% 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

Patterson Assembly TCR series: 2016=10 · 2017=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Patterson Assembly falls in its industry

2,838 Motor vehicle moldings and ext establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #197 safest of 218 Motor vehicle moldings and ext employers in Michigan.

Patterson Assembly (120 employees, TCR 8.7) 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 Patterson Assembly
Patterson Assembly (120 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Patterson Assembly has more employees than the Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, p median and a higher 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
2017 7.3 3.7 2 0 0
2016 10.0 8.2 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · MI · Kentwood

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 · 122 employers in Kentwood, 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 Trilogy Plastics Plant 2 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norwesco Sheldon 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Letica-Oklahoma 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 44th St. Assembly 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elzinga & Volkers Inc. 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fennville MI 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ovid Plant 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ludington Plant 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ventra Grand Rapids Plant 5 1,274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1 656 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Food Solutions H5 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trees LLC 484 346 FTE
NAT-TCR Tukwila (Waken) 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Summerville Center (Scsmv) 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Avamere Rehabilitation of Eugene 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Florida Memorial University 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Peapod S&S Riverhead, Ny 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highway 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE South 501 MNE8 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Arlington 120 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: 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.