Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing · Michigan

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Plymouth

Plymouth, MI · ~397 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Plymouth runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Plymouth: 4.7 TCR = 88% of Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Plymouth safety composite

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Plymouth scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.61 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

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Plymouth: 3.9 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2018

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Plymouth's TCR rose 1.5 from 3.9 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Plymouth, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.7 · 88% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #117/146
  • PHOTO 3239 Keystone
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~397 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3239 Keystone (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Plymouth in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Plymouth averages 4.7 TCR (88% of the Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Plymouth TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=5 · 2018=5.4 · BLS 5.4

Where Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Plymouth falls in its industry

772 Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manu establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #117 safest of 146 Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manu employers in Michigan.

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Plymouth (397 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Plymouth
Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Plymouth (397 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Plymouth has more employees than the Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2018 5.4 2.6 33 0 0
2017 5.0 1.5 16 1 0
2016 3.9 1.7 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · MI · Plymouth

772 Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 139 employers in Plymouth, 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 3239 Keystone 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR EnovaPremier of Alabama LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kayser Automotive Systems 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magna International Newaygo 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sysco Detroit 397 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2912 397 FTE
STATE-SIZE EJ Co. 398 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland Technical Campus 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADIENT LLC Headquarters 1,544 FTE
CITY-NEAR Webasto Roof Systems Inc. 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR Comprehensive Care Services, Inc. 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR 11021 648 FTE
NAT-TCR Tops Products 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Eversource - Southborough Gas 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Highlands Regional Medical Center - FL 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Morgan Truck Body LLC MTX 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE VINNVABM 397 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giorgi Mushroom Farm 1 397 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cordova (Casmt) 397 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ups National Turnpike (Kynat) 397 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: 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.