Fast-food restaurants · Michigan

44008 - Kfc/Ljs

Big Rapids, MI · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.1
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

44008 - Kfc/Ljs runs at 570% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fast-food restaurants workplace, earning a grade F.

44008 - Kfc/Ljs: 17.1 TCR = 570% of Fast-food restaurants BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

44008 - Kfc/Ljs safety composite

44008 - Kfc/Ljs scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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 17.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

44008 - Kfc/Ljs: 6.6 → 27.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 27.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

44008 - Kfc/Ljs's TCR rose 21.0 from 6.6 in 2023 to 27.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722513 · Big Rapids, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.1 · 570% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #54/54
  • PHOTO The Cafe at Thistle …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Cafe at Thistle Farms (0.1 TCR gap)

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44008 - Kfc/Ljs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 44008 - Kfc/Ljs averages 17.1 TCR (570% of the Fast-food restaurants BLS benchmark).

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

44008 - Kfc/Ljs TCR series: 2023=6.6 · 2024=27.6 · BLS 3.0

Where 44008 - Kfc/Ljs falls in its industry

1,014 Fast-food restaurants establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #54 safest of 54 Fast-food restaurants employers in Michigan.

44008 - Kfc/Ljs (26 employees, TCR 17.1) 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 44008 - Kfc/Ljs
44008 - Kfc/Ljs (26 employees, TCR 17.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

44008 - Kfc/Ljs has fewer employees than the Fast-food restaurants 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 27.6 0.0 4 0 0
2023 6.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · MI · Big Rapids

1,014 Fast-food restaurants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 45 employers in Big Rapids, 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 The Cafe at Thistle Farms 17.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Denny's Store #317 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meson Sandwiches 025 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boudin SF - Sacramento 17.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Walther Farms Cass City 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE United States Gypsum 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Genesee Power Station 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bronson SC 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Rapids Campus 2,664 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spectrum Health Big Rapids Hospital 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Rapids Products 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1719 313 FTE
NAT-TCR 86 - Whitewater 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverside Landing Skilled Nursing & Rehab 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dalton Gardens 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Virginia Mental Health Institute 17.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Crosstown Retail 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 300 Franklin Ave 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redwood Estates JFI 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iron Construction, Inc. 26 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.