Automobile bodies, passenger car, manufacturing · Michigan

Summit Polymers, Inc.

Portage, MI · ~1,619 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Summit Polymers, Inc. runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Automobile bodies, passenger car, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Summit Polymers, Inc.: 3.3 TCR = 98% of Automobile bodies, passenger car, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Summit Polymers, Inc. safety composite

Summit Polymers, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−0.9

2020→2021

Summit Polymers, Inc. injury rate improved

Summit Polymers, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.9 from 3.7 in 2020 to 2.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.7 · 2021=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Portage, MI AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 98% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #7/27
  • PHOTO REVO
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 83 inj
  • SIZE ~1,619 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: REVO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Summit Polymers, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Summit Polymers, Inc. averages 3.3 TCR (98% of the Automobile bodies, passenger car, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Summit Polymers, Inc. TCR series: 2020=3.7 · 2021=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Summit Polymers, Inc. falls in its industry

470 Automobile bodies, passenger c establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 27 Automobile bodies, passenger c employers in Michigan.

Summit Polymers, Inc. (1,619 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Summit Polymers, Inc.
Summit Polymers, Inc. (1,619 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Summit Polymers, Inc. has more employees than the Automobile bodies, passenger car, manufa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2021 2.8 2.5 38 2 0
2020 3.7 3.5 45 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · MI · Portage

470 Automobile bodies, passenger car, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 136 employers in Portage, 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 REVO 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Molded Fiber Glass Companies North Carolina 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frazer LTD 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SkyMark - OH 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2965-675 1,626 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 1,607 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8598_19931 1,607 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMZL : DDT1 1,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Instruments - 1941 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Medical 2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Corporation Shared Services 768 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mann+Hummel - Portage 653 FTE
NAT-TCR Skilltech 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Awg - Nashville 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ESS 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR KC Precision 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Viejas Casino 1,619 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barton Campus 1,619 FTE
NAT-SIZE POC 1,619 FTE
NAT-SIZE NXP USA, Inc Chandler 1,619 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: 2021, 2020. 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.