Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing · Michigan

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant Five

Name: Summit Polymers Inc - Plant Five Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Portage, MI · ~320 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant Five runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant Five: 6.4 TCR = 193% of Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant Five safety composite

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant Five scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant Five: 4.6 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2017

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant Five's TCR rose 3.6 from 4.6 in 2016 to 8.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Portage, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 193% of ind

DART 7.2 DART
RANK #173/218
PHOTO PRC
BOOK 2y book
INJ 44 inj
SIZE ~320 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PRC (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Summit Polymers Inc - Plant Five averages 6.4 TCR (193% of the Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant Five TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=8.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Summit Polymers Inc - Plant Five falls in its industry

2,838 Motor vehicle moldings and ext establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #173 safest of 218 Motor vehicle moldings and ext employers in Michigan.

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant Five (320 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant Five has more employees than the Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, p median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2017	8.1	7.2	27	0	0
2016	4.6	4.6	17	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · MI · Portage

2,838 Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	PRC	TUALATIN, OR	6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Southern Indiana Plastics, Inc.	JEFFERSONVILLE, IN	6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Williams, CA	WILLIAMS, CA	6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	FGS Giddings East	GIDDINGS, TX	6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Litehouse Foods Inc	LOWELL	320 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mayco Shelby	SHELBY TOWNSHIP	320 FTE
STATE-SIZE	The HT Hackney C	WYOMING	320 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Meijer 36	WYOMING	320 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Stryker Instruments - 1941	Portage	2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Stryker Medical	Portage	2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Summit Polymers, Inc.	Portage	1,619 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Stryker Corporation Shared Services	Portage	768 FTE
NAT-TCR	0215 - Philadelphia, Pa	Philadelphia, PA	6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Roadrunner Drywall Arizona	Scottsdale, AZ	6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Oldcastle OPI - Middle Island	Middle Island, NY	6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tampa (Flela)	Tampa, FL	6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Roebuck (Alroe)	Birmingham, AL	320 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Spectrum America 998	Omaha, NE	320 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Zimmer Surgical	Dover, OH	320 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Michels Fleet- Brownsville	Brownsville, WI	320 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: 2017, 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.