Retail · Michigan

316 - Columbia Avenue West BC

Battle Creek, MI · ~240 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

316 - Columbia Avenue West BC runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Retail workplace, earning a grade B.

316 - Columbia Avenue West BC: 2.5 TCR = 74% of Retail BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

316 - Columbia Avenue West BC safety composite

316 - Columbia Avenue West BC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

316 - Columbia Avenue West BC held a steady TCR band

316 - Columbia Avenue West BC's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.6 in 2021 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.6 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 455211 · Battle Creek, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 74% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #79/141
  • PHOTO 701-00195
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~240 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 701-00195 (0.0 TCR gap)

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316 - Columbia Avenue West BC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 316 - Columbia Avenue West BC averages 2.5 TCR (74% of the Retail BLS benchmark).

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

316 - Columbia Avenue West BC TCR series: 2021=1.6 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.4

Where 316 - Columbia Avenue West BC falls in its industry

1,491 Retail establishments

Safer than 86% 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 #79 safest of 141 Retail employers in Michigan.

316 - Columbia Avenue West BC (240 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 260 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 100200300400500600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate 316 - Columbia Avenue West BC
316 - Columbia Avenue West BC (240 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 260 employees and a TCR of 4.8

316 - Columbia Avenue West BC has fewer employees than the Retail 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 1.7 1.1 3 0 0
2023 2.2 2.2 4 0 0
2022 4.6 4.6 8 1 0
2021 1.6 1.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

455211 · MI · Battle Creek

1,491 Retail employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 161 employers in Battle Creek, 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 701-00195 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 030 - Airport Rd Jackson 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 069 - Mt Pleasant 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 324 - S Pennsylvania Ave Lansing 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Summit Polymers Inc, P01 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Magna Electric Vehicle Structures - Michigan 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flex-N-Gate Battle Creek, LLC 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer Inc. 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR Denso Manufacturing of Michigan 2,702 FTE
CITY-NEAR BRONSON BATTLE CREEK 1,530 FTE
CITY-NEAR Battle Creek HQ Corporate Office 1,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR I I Stanley Co., Inc. 729 FTE
NAT-TCR Legacy Village of Taylorsville 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fresh Market East Layton 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Discovery Commons at Bradenton 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LAZ Parking Northwest, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Metalcraft of Mayville - West Bend 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE FM3 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE Webster'S Marketplace 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cardinal Health Syracuse DC 240 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.