Trucking, general freight, local · Michigan

Sterling Heights

Sterling Heights, Mi 48314, MI · ~107 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Heights runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Trucking, general freight, local workplace, earning a grade D.

Sterling Heights: 5.4 TCR = 120% of Trucking, general freight, local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Heights safety composite

Sterling Heights scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Sterling Heights: 4.2 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2024

Sterling Heights's TCR rose 2.8 from 4.2 in 2022 to 7.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Sterling Heights, Mi 48314, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 120% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #65/103
  • PHOTO McMahon Carriers Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~107 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McMahon Carriers Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Heights averages 5.4 TCR (120% of the Trucking, general freight, local BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Heights TCR series: 2022=4.2 · 2023=5 · 2024=7 · BLS 4.5

Where Sterling Heights falls in its industry

2,784 Trucking, general freight, loc establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #65 safest of 103 Trucking, general freight, loc employers in Michigan.

Sterling Heights (107 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Heights
Sterling Heights (107 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Sterling Heights has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 7.0 5.9 6 0 0
2023 5.0 2.0 5 0 0
2022 4.2 3.6 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · MI · Sterling Heights, Mi 48314

2,784 Trucking, general freight, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 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 McMahon Carriers Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DCC : 5068-00 Advance-DCC/Delaware, OH 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR IP Carrollton 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boyd Special Commodities 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shelbey Service Cemter 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE CB Asphalt Maintenance LLC 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bloom Roofing Systems Inc 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reliable Relamping 107 FTE
NAT-TCR White Township 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Waynes Fayetteville 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Waterford at Colby 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Omaha Housing Authority 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lexington Manufacturing - BRD 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE PCC Community Markets - View Ridge 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boomerang Rubber Inc 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE PCC Community Markets - Downtown 107 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.