Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing · Michigan

890 Central Kitchen

Kentwood, MI · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

890 Central Kitchen runs at 308% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

890 Central Kitchen: 12.6 TCR = 308% of Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

890 Central Kitchen safety composite

890 Central Kitchen scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

Rising injury rate

890 Central Kitchen: 10.0 → 15.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 15.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2017

890 Central Kitchen's TCR rose 5.2 from 10.0 in 2016 to 15.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Kentwood, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.6 · 308% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO North Jackson Kitchen
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Jackson Kitchen (0.0 TCR gap)

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890 Central Kitchen in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 890 Central Kitchen averages 12.6 TCR (308% of the Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

890 Central Kitchen TCR series: 2016=10 · 2017=15.2 · BLS 4.1

Where 890 Central Kitchen falls in its industry

376 Perishable Prepared Food Manuf establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Perishable Prepared Food Manuf employers in Michigan.

890 Central Kitchen (71 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 890 Central Kitchen
890 Central Kitchen (71 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

890 Central Kitchen has fewer employees than the Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2017 15.2 7.6 10 0 0
2016 10.0 6.3 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · MI · Kentwood

376 Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 122 employers in Kentwood, 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 North Jackson Kitchen 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR VEGGIE NOODLE CO., LLC 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Market of Choice Central Kitchen 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MARVEL INTERNATIONAL INC 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Applegate Dairy LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE FCC Construction Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weiss Construction Co., LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE IHRone 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ventra Grand Rapids Plant 5 1,274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1 656 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Food Solutions H5 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trees LLC 484 346 FTE
NAT-TCR First Transit Sacramento 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Inn At Garden Plaza 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR IDF Studio Scenery, Inc. 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Max & Erma's Gahanna 12.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Garden City Container 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Hampshire Location #09 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Philips Lighting Mountain Top RDC 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kincaid Ready Mix 71 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: 2017, 2016. 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.