New car dealers · Michigan

Southgate Automotive, Inc.

Southgate, MI · ~114 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southgate Automotive, Inc. runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical New car dealers workplace, earning a grade C.

Southgate Automotive, Inc.: 3.6 TCR = 105% of New car dealers BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southgate Automotive, Inc. safety composite

Southgate Automotive, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Southgate Automotive, Inc.: 3.4 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Southgate Automotive, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.9 from 3.4 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Southgate, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 105% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #67/106
  • PHOTO Walser Chrysler Jeep…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Walser Chrysler Jeep Dodge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southgate Automotive, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southgate Automotive, Inc. averages 3.6 TCR (105% of the New car dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Southgate Automotive, Inc. TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=3 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=1 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Southgate Automotive, Inc. falls in its industry

2,847 New car dealers establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #67 safest of 106 New car dealers employers in Michigan.

Southgate Automotive, Inc. (114 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Southgate Automotive, Inc.
Southgate Automotive, Inc. (114 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Southgate Automotive, Inc. has more employees than the New car dealers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 5.4 3.6 6 0 0
2023 4.5 2.7 5 0 0
2022 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2021 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2020 4.9 2.9 5 0 0
2019 3.3 2.5 4 0 0
2018 4.8 3.2 6 0 0
2017 3.0 1.5 4 0 0
2016 3.4 2.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · MI · Southgate

2,847 New car dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 33 employers in Southgate, 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 Walser Chrysler Jeep Dodge 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lundgren Motors Inc 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kunes CDJR of Sycamore 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR family ford inc dba brandon ford 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Infrastructure Alternatives Inc 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Detroit 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Boiler & Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR AJM Packaging - Southgate 569 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Guidance Center 540 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5842 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5842 349 FTE
NAT-TCR 1302/3197 Keystone 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rohrer Corporation - Wadsworth 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR UPM Raflatac Inc Dixon IL 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunny Delight Beverages Company 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oficina Central 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anson Health and Rehabilitation 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE UFP Site Built, LLC Plant 302 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harris Arizona, LLC 114 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, 2021, 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.