Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · Michigan

Tesa Plant Sparta, LLC

Sparta, MI · ~122 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tesa Plant Sparta, LLC runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Tesa Plant Sparta, LLC: 4.7 TCR = 142% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tesa Plant Sparta, LLC safety composite

Tesa Plant Sparta, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

Tesa Plant Sparta, LLC held a steady TCR band

Tesa Plant Sparta, LLC's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.6 in 2018 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 15.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.6 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=15.8 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · Sparta, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 142% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO API Lawrence Fin
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: API Lawrence Fin (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tesa Plant Sparta, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tesa Plant Sparta, LLC averages 4.7 TCR (142% of the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tesa Plant Sparta, LLC TCR series: 2018=2.6 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=15.8 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Tesa Plant Sparta, LLC falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 9 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in Michigan.

Tesa Plant Sparta, LLC (122 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 Tesa Plant Sparta, LLC
Tesa Plant Sparta, LLC (122 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Tesa Plant Sparta, LLC has more employees than the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper M median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 2.8 2.8 4 0 0
2023 2.4 2.4 3 0 0
2022 2.6 1.7 3 0 0
2021 2.6 0.9 3 0 0
2020 15.8 4.3 10 1 0
2019 4.2 0.8 5 0 0
2018 2.6 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322220 · MI · Sparta

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 33 employers in Sparta, 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 API Lawrence Fin 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Carrollton Parchment & Converting 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR API KS MFG 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Continental Datalabel Elgin 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wolgast Corporation 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Action Traffic Maintenance Inc. 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE JK Masonry Inc 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schad Boiler Setting Company 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Agrico Labor LLC 559 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Formulations 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal-Mogul Powertrain 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Lakes Division 149 FTE
NAT-TCR Ohio Living - Breckenridge Village 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Brazilian Court Hotel-545 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rooks County Health Center 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR C&B MJW Nashville, TN 165 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Impact Logistics Group Inc 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winter Haven 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DBM3 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlanta - Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc. / FFE Transportation 122 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.