Wipers, windshield, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Indiana

Sprague Devices

Michigan City, IN · ~121 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sprague Devices runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Wipers, windshield, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Sprague Devices: 2.9 TCR = 53% of Wipers, windshield, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sprague Devices safety composite

Sprague Devices scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

−0.6

2016→2019

Sprague Devices injury rate improved

Sprague Devices's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.9 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.9 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Michigan City, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 53% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #31/66
  • PHOTO MPN Incorporated
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~121 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MPN Incorporated (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sprague Devices in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sprague Devices averages 2.9 TCR (53% of the Wipers, windshield, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sprague Devices TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=2.2 · BLS 5.4

Where Sprague Devices falls in its industry

772 Wipers, windshield, automotive establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 66 Wipers, windshield, automotive employers in Indiana.

Sprague Devices (121 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sprague Devices
Sprague Devices (121 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Sprague Devices has fewer employees than the Wipers, windshield, automotive, truck, a median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 2.2 0.7 3 0 0
2018 3.5 2.8 5 0 0
2016 2.9 2.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · IN · Michigan City

772 Wipers, windshield, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 111 employers in Michigan City, IN · 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 MPN Incorporated 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&W Trailer Hitches 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR HAL @ TMMTX 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Erwin Diesel 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE South Central Indiana REMC 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Indiana Insulation LLC 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE McCormick South Bend Plant 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Lamination 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franciscan Health Michigan City 938 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Chip Casino Hotel Spa 772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michigan City High School 603 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Foods Solutions 602 FTE
NAT-TCR Steele Canvas Basket Corporation 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Owatonna, MN 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Damar Aerosystems 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Feed Mill 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Triangle Services - Fort Myers (RSW) Airport Janitorial 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luxfer Gas Cylinders 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hotel Covington 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flex-A-Seal, Inc. 121 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, 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.