Warehousing and storage, general merchandise · Michigan

Spencer // Butcher Sterling Heights

Sterling Heights, MI · ~129 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spencer // Butcher Sterling Heights runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Warehousing and storage, general merchandise workplace, earning a grade D.

Spencer // Butcher Sterling Heights: 8.4 TCR = 146% of Warehousing and storage, general merchandise BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spencer // Butcher Sterling Heights safety composite

Spencer // Butcher Sterling Heights scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.0

2022→2023

Spencer // Butcher Sterling Heights injury rate improved

Spencer // Butcher Sterling Heights's TCR fell 4.0 from 10.5 in 2022 to 6.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=10.5 · 2023=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Sterling Heights, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.4 · 146% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #165/194
  • PHOTO AVP2
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AVP2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spencer // Butcher Sterling Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spencer // Butcher Sterling Heights averages 8.4 TCR (146% of the Warehousing and storage, general merchandise BLS benchmark).

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

Spencer // Butcher Sterling Heights TCR series: 2022=10.5 · 2023=6.4 · BLS 5.8

Where Spencer // Butcher Sterling Heights falls in its industry

9,477 Warehousing and storage, gener establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #165 safest of 194 Warehousing and storage, gener employers in Michigan.

Spencer // Butcher Sterling Heights (129 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Spencer // Butcher Sterling Heights
Spencer // Butcher Sterling Heights (129 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Spencer // Butcher Sterling Heights has more employees than the Warehousing and storage, general merchan median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 6.4 5.2 5 0 0
2022 10.5 2.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · MI · Sterling Heights

9,477 Warehousing and storage, general merchandise 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 AVP2 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Regional Health Distribution Center 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NRI USA, LLC - PA 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - AVP8 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Huron County Road Commission 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pratt(classic Container),inc 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Traverse Container 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aludyne West Michigan LLC - Stevensville 129 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 Main Street Terrace Care Center 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Highway Department 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayflower Gardens Convalescent Hospital 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill of the Great Plains S. Norton 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Excelitas Technologies 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Union Gap #111 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Marcos #134 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Devonshire Acres 129 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: 2023, 2022. 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.