Lighting fixtures, electric, merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Ray Electric-Sterling Heights

Sterling Heights, MI · ~42 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ray Electric-Sterling Heights runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Lighting fixtures, electric, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Ray Electric-Sterling Heights: 2.6 TCR = 119% of Lighting fixtures, electric, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ray Electric-Sterling Heights safety composite

Ray Electric-Sterling Heights scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

Ray Electric-Sterling Heights: 0.0 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Ray Electric-Sterling Heights's TCR rose 2.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423610 · Sterling Heights, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 119% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/30
  • PHOTO Pomona
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pomona (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ray Electric-Sterling Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ray Electric-Sterling Heights averages 2.6 TCR (119% of the Lighting fixtures, electric, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Ray Electric-Sterling Heights TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=6.7 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=0 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Ray Electric-Sterling Heights falls in its industry

1,190 Lighting fixtures, electric, m establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 30 Lighting fixtures, electric, m employers in Michigan.

Ray Electric-Sterling Heights (42 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ray Electric-Sterling Heights
Ray Electric-Sterling Heights (42 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Ray Electric-Sterling Heights has fewer employees than the Lighting fixtures, electric, merchant wh median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2022 2.2 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2018 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 6.7 6.7 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423610 · MI · Sterling Heights

1,190 Lighting fixtures, electric, merchant wholesalers 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 Pomona 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agilix Solutions - Jackson, TN 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Current Lighting 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Raybro Electric Supplies (PC8659) 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE General Meter 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gas Construction Jackson 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pennings & Sons 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE CR Meyer - Muskegon 42 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 ME Trucking 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Aluminum Products Inc 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR W.E. O'Neil Construction Company 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Diversicare of Riverchase 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Osprey Corp - Atl 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wornall 1211 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advantage Tank Lines 20050 Ashland 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redstone Home 42 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, 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.