Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing · Michigan

Summit Polymers Inc. - Plant One

Portage, MI · ~208 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Summit Polymers Inc. - Plant One runs at 161% 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 One: 5.3 TCR = 161% of Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Summit Polymers Inc. - Plant One safety composite

Summit Polymers Inc. - Plant One scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2016→2021

Summit Polymers Inc. - Plant One injury rate improved

Summit Polymers Inc. - Plant One's TCR fell 1.8 from 7.8 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.8 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=4.4 · 2021=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 161% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #154/218
  • PHOTO Grammer TMD- LLC Bow…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~208 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grammer TMD- LLC Bowling Green OH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Summit Polymers Inc. - Plant One in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Summit Polymers Inc. - Plant One averages 5.3 TCR (161% of the Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Summit Polymers Inc. - Plant One TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=4.4 · 2021=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Summit Polymers Inc. - Plant One falls in its industry

2,838 Motor vehicle moldings and ext establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #154 safest of 218 Motor vehicle moldings and ext employers in Michigan.

Summit Polymers Inc. - Plant One (208 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Summit Polymers Inc. - Plant One
Summit Polymers Inc. - Plant One (208 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Summit Polymers Inc. - Plant One 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
2021 6.0 6.0 9 1 0
2019 4.4 2.9 6 0 0
2018 2.8 2.8 5 0 0
2017 5.6 4.5 11 0 0
2016 7.8 6.8 16 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Grammer TMD- LLC Bowling Green OH 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Ipe Clip Fastener Company LLC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR IDI FABRICATION LEMONT 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eger Products Plant 2 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE ITC Operations-219 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aludyne West Michigan LLC - Benton Harbor 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bucher Hydraulics, Inc. Grand Rapids, MI 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE ADESA : Flint 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Instruments - 1941 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Medical 2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summit Polymers, Inc. 1,619 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Corporation Shared Services 768 FTE
NAT-TCR Cash Saver #3812 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ironwood Electric LLC 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Concrete 40 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wisconsin Center District 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Live Oak Homes Plant #3 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allied Wire and Cable - PA 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE IPG-Menasha 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westcom Synnex 208 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.