Building exterior cleaning services (except sand blasting, window cleaning) · Michigan

Sparks Industrial Service, Inc

Newaygo, MI · ~60 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sparks Industrial Service, Inc runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Building exterior cleaning services (except sand blasting, window cleaning) workplace, earning a grade C.

Sparks Industrial Service, Inc: 3.8 TCR = 83% of Building exterior cleaning services (except sand blasting, window cleaning) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sparks Industrial Service, Inc safety composite

Sparks Industrial Service, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Sparks Industrial Service, Inc: 1.2 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.67× in 2022

Sparks Industrial Service, Inc's TCR rose 5.0 from 1.2 in 2021 to 6.3 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561790 · Newaygo, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 83% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK P57
  • PHOTO Pool Operation Manag…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pool Operation Management - O (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sparks Industrial Service, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sparks Industrial Service, Inc averages 3.8 TCR (83% of the Building exterior cleaning services (except sand blasting, window cleaning) BLS benchmark).

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

Sparks Industrial Service, Inc TCR series: 2021=1.2 · 2022=6.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Sparks Industrial Service, Inc falls in its industry

171 Building exterior cleaning ser establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sparks Industrial Service, Inc (60 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sparks Industrial Service, Inc
Sparks Industrial Service, Inc (60 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Sparks Industrial Service, Inc has more employees than the Building exterior cleaning services (exc median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2022 6.3 6.3 3 0 0
2021 1.2 1.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561790 · MI · Newaygo

171 Building exterior cleaning services (except sand blasting, window cleaning) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 16 employers in Newaygo, 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 Pool Operation Management - O 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Countryside Property Maintenance LLC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR QSI Fair Oaks West 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Konos DBA Vande Bunte Eggs 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marquette Board of Light & Power 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hamilton SC 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE VanDam & Krusinga Building and Restoration 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magna International Newaygo 911 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magna Mirrors- Newaygo 902 FTE
CITY-NEAR GM Wood Products 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bucher Hydraulics, Inc. Newaygo, MI 152 FTE
NAT-TCR Boone Electric Cooperative 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Butterball LLC Hatchery # 2 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 465 - Cary Crossroads 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 483 - SW Waukesha 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 196 St. John (Jacksonville 2) 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops #740 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maine-Niles Association of Special Recreation - Office 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Living Greens Farm 60 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.