Restaurants, fast food · Michigan

4357 - Taco Bell

Gaylord, MI · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.6
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

4357 - Taco Bell runs at 519% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Restaurants, fast food workplace, earning a grade F.

4357 - Taco Bell: 15.6 TCR = 519% of Restaurants, fast food BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

4357 - Taco Bell safety composite

4357 - Taco Bell scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.9

2023→2024

4357 - Taco Bell injury rate improved

4357 - Taco Bell's TCR fell 6.9 from 19.0 in 2023 to 12.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 19.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=19.0 · 2024=12.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722513 · Gaylord, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.6 · 519% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #53/54
  • PHOTO Popeyes 12496
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Popeyes 12496 (0.0 TCR gap)

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4357 - Taco Bell in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 4357 - Taco Bell averages 15.6 TCR (519% of the Restaurants, fast food BLS benchmark).

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

4357 - Taco Bell TCR series: 2023=19 · 2024=12.1 · BLS 3.0

Where 4357 - Taco Bell falls in its industry

1,014 Restaurants, fast food establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #53 safest of 54 Restaurants, fast food employers in Michigan.

4357 - Taco Bell (33 employees, TCR 15.6) 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 4357 - Taco Bell
4357 - Taco Bell (33 employees, TCR 15.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

4357 - Taco Bell has fewer employees than the Restaurants, fast food median and a higher 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 12.1 0.0 3 0 0
2023 19.0 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · MI · Gaylord

1,014 Restaurants, fast food employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 58 employers in Gaylord, 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 Popeyes 12496 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Popeye's 13557 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nadolife, Inc.-Bayside 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 040 Plaza Centro, Caguas 15.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE PRH GROUP LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Three Rivers Svc Ctr 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alpena Power Company 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Treatment City of Wyoming 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munson Healthcare Otsego Memorial Hospital 771 FTE
CITY-NEAR Otsego Memorial Hospital 644 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1542 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1542 330 FTE
NAT-TCR Addiction Stabilization Center 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Consolidated Glass 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Butcher Block, Inc. dba North Country Smokehouse 15.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Will-O-Crest Farm 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE 201 Quality Truss 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill 34th Street SS 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE JFI 421 Aviation Boulevard 33 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.

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