General freight trucking, local · Michigan

Sterling Heights Terminal

Sterling Heights, MI · ~85 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Heights Terminal runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade B.

Sterling Heights Terminal: 3.0 TCR = 66% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Heights Terminal safety composite

Sterling Heights Terminal scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−4.1

2017→2020

Sterling Heights Terminal injury rate improved

Sterling Heights Terminal's TCR fell 4.1 from 6.6 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.6 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Sterling Heights, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 66% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #35/103
  • PHOTO NCFYE - FAYETTEVILLE
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NCFYE - FAYETTEVILLE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Heights Terminal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Heights Terminal averages 3.0 TCR (66% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Heights Terminal TCR series: 2017=6.6 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Sterling Heights Terminal falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 71% 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 #35 safest of 103 General freight trucking, loca employers in Michigan.

Sterling Heights Terminal (85 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Terminal
Sterling Heights Terminal (85 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Sterling Heights Terminal has more employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a lower 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
2020 2.5 1.7 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.7 2.7 3 0 0
2017 6.6 4.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · MI · Sterling Heights

2,784 General freight trucking, local 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 NCFYE - FAYETTEVILLE 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HARRISBURG (PAMDD) 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phoenix Transportation Services, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Venezia Transport Services, Inc. 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Owen Ames Kimball Co. 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Giannetti Contracting Corporation 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE JJ Barney Construction Inc. 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circuit Electric Michigan 85 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 Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (LaCrosse) 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Aerodyne Alloys 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid-Iowa Workshop, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Milton Production 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 90003930 Canal 3 Simple Cycle Project 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Insteel Wire Products - Dayton, TX 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owen Steel Delaware 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mechanical 85 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.