mANUFACTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE PARTS · Michigan

Sterling Plnt

Sterling Heights, MI · ~2,319 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Plnt runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical mANUFACTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE PARTS workplace, earning a grade C.

Sterling Plnt: 5.4 TCR = 101% of mANUFACTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE PARTS BLS 5.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Plnt safety composite

Sterling Plnt scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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 5.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Sterling Plnt held a steady TCR band

Sterling Plnt's TCR held near 0.3 from 6.2 in 2016 to 5.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.2 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=4.2 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336350 · Sterling Heights, MI ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 5.4 · 101% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #41/61
  • PHOTO HHI Formtech, LLC - …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 705 inj
  • SIZE ~2,319 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Plnt in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Plnt averages 5.4 TCR (101% of the mANUFACTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE PARTS BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Plnt TCR series: 2016=6.2 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=4.2 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 5.4

Where Sterling Plnt falls in its industry

320 mANUFACTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE PART establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 61 mANUFACTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE PART employers in Michigan.

Sterling Plnt (2,319 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sterling Plnt
Sterling Plnt (2,319 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Sterling Plnt has more employees than the mANUFACTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE PARTS median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 5.9 4.1 109 24 0
2023 5.6 3.1 93 28 0
2022 5.3 3.4 73 24 0
2020 4.2 2.1 49 32 0
2019 5.6 3.4 82 51 0
2018 4.3 2.8 103 51 0
2017 6.3 3.3 106 46 0
2016 6.2 3.0 90 60 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336350 · MI · Sterling Heights

320 mANUFACTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE PARTS 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 HHI Formtech, LLC - Royal Oak Plant 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR HHI FormTech - Troy (DBA AAM) 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flexible Concepts, Inc 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 1 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flat Rock Assembly 2,326 FTE
STATE-SIZE MidMichigan Medical Center - Midland 2,348 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Bloomfield Hosp & Med Ctr 2,356 FTE
STATE-SIZE MGM Grand Detroit 2,277 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Heights Assembly Plant 5,783 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Stamping Plant 2,115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Conti, LLC 1,892 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterling Heights Complex 1,716 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Air New Zealand Lax 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Redlands Family Y 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR New Process Fibre Company, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 413 2,318 FTE
NAT-SIZE FieldCore Service Solutions, LLC 2,318 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ames Construction 2,318 FTE
NAT-SIZE Poly America 2,318 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, 2020, 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.