Employer · Michigan

514 - Battle Creek

Battle Creek, MI · ~96 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

514 - Battle Creek runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

514 - Battle Creek: 4.3 TCR = 126% of industry BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

514 - Battle Creek safety composite

514 - Battle Creek scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

514 - Battle Creek: 0.0 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2022

514 - Battle Creek's TCR rose 5.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Battle Creek, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 126% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #80/109
  • PHOTO 153 - Paducah
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 153 - Paducah (0.0 TCR gap)

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514 - Battle Creek in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 514 - Battle Creek averages 4.3 TCR (126% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

514 - Battle Creek TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=2.8 · 2022=5.2 · BLS 3.4

Where 514 - Battle Creek falls in its industry

2,917 industry establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #80 safest of 109 industry employers in Michigan.

514 - Battle Creek (96 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 514 - Battle Creek
514 - Battle Creek (96 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

514 - Battle Creek has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2022 5.2 2.6 1 1 0
2020 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 6.6 0.0 3 0 0
2018 6.9 6.9 3 0 0
2017 4.3 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · MI · Battle Creek

2,917 industry 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 153 - Paducah 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 71171 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 316 Westampton 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 624 Chillicothe 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Triangle Associates 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Champion Specialty Services, LLC @ Palisades Nuclear Plant 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edgewood Electric LLC 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 96 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 DKM Sales 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Canterbury Healthcare 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Newport News Parks & Recreation & Tourism 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Eau Claire Travel Center 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 550 - Baybrook 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE 552 - Tomball 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE 451 - Conyers 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE 438 - Fayetteville-GA 96 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: 2022, 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.