Automotive chemicals (except lubricating greases, lubrication oils) merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Sam Brown Sales

Farmington, MI · ~42 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sam Brown Sales runs at 302% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automotive chemicals (except lubricating greases, lubrication oils) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Sam Brown Sales: 6.7 TCR = 302% of Automotive chemicals (except lubricating greases, lubrication oils) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sam Brown Sales safety composite

Sam Brown Sales scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Sam Brown Sales: 0.0 → 17.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 17.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.1× in 2018

Sam Brown Sales's TCR rose 17.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 17.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Farmington, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 302% of ind

  • DART 14.0 DART
  • RANK #25/28
  • PHOTO Americhem Sales Comp…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Americhem Sales Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sam Brown Sales in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sam Brown Sales averages 6.7 TCR (302% of the Automotive chemicals (except lubricating greases, lubrication oils) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Sam Brown Sales TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=17.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Sam Brown Sales falls in its industry

766 Automotive chemicals (except l establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 28 Automotive chemicals (except l employers in Michigan.

Sam Brown Sales (42 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sam Brown Sales
Sam Brown Sales (42 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Sam Brown Sales has more employees than the Automotive chemicals (except lubricating median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2018 17.5 14.0 5 0 0
2017 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · MI · Farmington

766 Automotive chemicals (except lubricating greases, lubrication oils) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 35 employers in Farmington, 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 Americhem Sales Company 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR nexAir Orlando 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arleta Warehouse 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arrochem 6.6 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 Maxfield Education Center 1,353 FTE
CITY-NEAR Administration Building/ CO 1,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gill Elementary 1,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR Longacre Elementary 1,317 FTE
NAT-TCR Nathan Hale Inn and Conference Center 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Waterloo 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fred Williams, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cdsd Diamond Bar 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Franklin 1 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE RRSC Northern VA 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeside Assisted Living by Trisun Healthcare 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6091-SS005 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: 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.