Motor vehicle paints manufacturing · Michigan

Transtar Autobody Technologies

Brighton, MI · ~103 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Transtar Autobody Technologies runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Motor vehicle paints manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Transtar Autobody Technologies: 2.2 TCR = 68% of Motor vehicle paints manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Transtar Autobody Technologies safety composite

Transtar Autobody Technologies scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

Transtar Autobody Technologies held a steady TCR band

Transtar Autobody Technologies's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.1 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.1 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=3.0 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=1.0 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Brighton, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 68% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #13/20
  • PHOTO FP Pigments Inc
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FP Pigments Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Transtar Autobody Technologies in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Transtar Autobody Technologies averages 2.2 TCR (68% of the Motor vehicle paints manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Transtar Autobody Technologies TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=3 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=1 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Transtar Autobody Technologies falls in its industry

530 Motor vehicle paints manufactu establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 20 Motor vehicle paints manufactu employers in Michigan.

Transtar Autobody Technologies (103 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Transtar Autobody Technologies
Transtar Autobody Technologies (103 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Transtar Autobody Technologies has more employees than the Motor vehicle paints manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2023 3.5 2.3 3 0 0
2022 4.9 3.7 4 0 0
2021 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2020 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2019 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2018 3.0 3.0 3 0 0
2017 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2016 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · MI · Brighton

530 Motor vehicle paints manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 119 employers in Brighton, 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 FP Pigments Inc 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orlando Facility 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc. - Lansing 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chilton, WI 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE MKG Norton Shores SC 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkels & McCoy - Canton, MI - Verizon 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE VanLaan Concrete Construction 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bumler Mechanical 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR MI-BRIGH01 544 FTE
CITY-NEAR BrightonENA 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR MI-BRIGH01-Brighton - MI - Warehouse 382 FTE
CITY-NEAR TGFS 353 FTE
NAT-TCR Core Carrier Corporation 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Brenham 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Surface Finish Technologies, Inc 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Central Ga EMC 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montgomery AL Division 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reynolds Polymer Technology 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cardinal Health 200 LLC 103 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, 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.