Fast-food restaurants · Michigan

21256 - TB - Birch Run

Houghton Lake, MI · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

21256 - TB - Birch Run runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fast-food restaurants workplace, earning a grade C.

21256 - TB - Birch Run: 3.1 TCR = 102% of Fast-food restaurants BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

21256 - TB - Birch Run safety composite

21256 - TB - Birch Run scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

Rising injury rate

21256 - TB - Birch Run: 0.0 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

21256 - TB - Birch Run's TCR rose 6.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 6.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722513 · Houghton Lake, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 102% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/54
  • PHOTO Denny's 9229
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Denny's 9229 (0.0 TCR gap)

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21256 - TB - Birch Run in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 21256 - TB - Birch Run averages 3.1 TCR (102% of the Fast-food restaurants BLS benchmark).

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

21256 - TB - Birch Run TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 3.0

Where 21256 - TB - Birch Run falls in its industry

1,014 Fast-food restaurants establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 54 Fast-food restaurants employers in Michigan.

21256 - TB - Birch Run (23 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 21256 - TB - Birch Run
21256 - TB - Birch Run (23 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

21256 - TB - Birch Run has fewer employees than the Fast-food restaurants median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 6.1 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · MI · Houghton Lake

1,014 Fast-food restaurants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 25 employers in Houghton Lake, 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 Denny's 9229 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blaze Pizza - #1015 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Denny's Store #416 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CARL'S JR 326 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - MIS 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Casey Woodwyk, Inc. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Schuring, Jr. Company 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atwood Timber and Lumber 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2014 309 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2014 295 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2769 HOUGHTON LAKE 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR King Nursing & Rehabilitation Community 58 FTE
NAT-TCR Cartoncraft, Inc 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Le Bleu Corporation 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Action Cargo Transport 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Commerce Drive Dental Group 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ditch Witch of South Louisiana 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pinnacle Premix, LLC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE ARO002 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE AZP001 23 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. 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.