Motor vehicle assembly plant construction · Michigan

THK Rhythm Automotive

Portland, MI · ~266 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

THK Rhythm Automotive runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Motor vehicle assembly plant construction workplace, earning a grade D.

THK Rhythm Automotive: 5.0 TCR = 173% of Motor vehicle assembly plant construction BLS 2.9 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

THK Rhythm Automotive safety composite

THK Rhythm Automotive scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

Rising injury rate

THK Rhythm Automotive: 3.8 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.24× in 2024

THK Rhythm Automotive's TCR rose 1.1 from 3.8 in 2017 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236210 · Portland, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 173% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #30/39
  • PHOTO Atlas Steel
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 97 inj
  • SIZE ~266 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atlas Steel (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Michigan employers → · Look up another →

THK Rhythm Automotive in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows THK Rhythm Automotive averages 5.0 TCR (173% of the Motor vehicle assembly plant construction BLS benchmark).

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

THK Rhythm Automotive TCR series: 2017=3.8 · 2018=5 · 2019=7.2 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 2.9

Where THK Rhythm Automotive falls in its industry

924 Motor vehicle assembly plant c establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 39 Motor vehicle assembly plant c employers in Michigan.

THK Rhythm Automotive (266 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate THK Rhythm Automotive
THK Rhythm Automotive (266 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6

THK Rhythm Automotive has more employees than the Motor vehicle assembly plant constructio median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 4.9 1.2 15 1 0
2023 3.4 1.8 8 3 0
2022 4.1 1.3 10 3 0
2021 6.9 2.8 20 0 0
2019 7.2 2.4 21 0 0
2018 5.0 1.4 13 1 0
2017 3.8 1.1 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236210 · MI · Portland

924 Motor vehicle assembly plant construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 9 employers in Portland, 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 Atlas Steel 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanger Plant 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hammers Construction Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CCS Building Group 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE De-Cal, Inc. 266 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nucraft Furniture 266 FTE
STATE-SIZE PV 266 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer Madison Heights 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Portland Products LLC 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tri-County Electric- Portland 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Portland 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6304_14768 46 FTE
NAT-TCR General Services 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Admin Services / Century Center 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Army Residence Community 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR L&M Fleet Supply Hibbing 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Teledyne Defense Electronics, LLC d/b/a Teledyne Relays 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dunn Construction Company, Inc. 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE KION Group Summerville 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northwest Cary Ymca - Ymca of the Triangle 266 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.