Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing · Michigan

Spartan Motors, Inc.

Charlotte, MI · ~805 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spartan Motors, Inc. runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Spartan Motors, Inc.: 4.3 TCR = 131% of Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spartan Motors, Inc. safety composite

Spartan Motors, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2016→2019

Spartan Motors, Inc. injury rate improved

Spartan Motors, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.5 from 5.1 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.1 · 2017=3.3 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Charlotte, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 131% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #11/27
  • PHOTO Summit Body Works Va…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 124 inj
  • SIZE ~805 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Summit Body Works Van/Truck Bodies (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spartan Motors, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spartan Motors, Inc. averages 4.3 TCR (131% of the Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Spartan Motors, Inc. TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=3.3 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Spartan Motors, Inc. falls in its industry

470 Truck bodies and cabs manufact establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 27 Truck bodies and cabs manufact employers in Michigan.

Spartan Motors, Inc. (805 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Spartan Motors, Inc.
Spartan Motors, Inc. (805 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Spartan Motors, Inc. has more employees than the Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2019 4.6 2.7 35 2 0
2018 4.3 2.5 32 1 0
2017 3.3 1.5 24 0 0
2016 5.1 2.6 33 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · MI · Charlotte

470 Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 39 employers in Charlotte, 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 Summit Body Works Van/Truck Bodies 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ox Bodies 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Shyft Group USA DBA Royal Truck Body 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SkyMark - KC 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DET2 804 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michigan Public Health Institute 804 FTE
STATE-SIZE JACKSON AERO MI 808 FTE
STATE-SIZE Accident Fund Holdings Inc. 808 FTE
CITY-NEAR Utilimaster 534 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Eaton 455 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eaton County 422 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7987_18773 418 FTE
NAT-TCR Maple Ridge 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6340-VIKING-WI010 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bradford Square 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon Transportation Services : MCO5 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dexter Axle Company - Plant 13 805 FTE
NAT-SIZE Centennial - ARA 805 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gage Personnel West Reading 805 FTE
NAT-SIZE MilliporeSigma - Spruce 805 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: 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.