Naturally carbonated water, purifying and bottling · Michigan

Absopure Company #14

Plymouth, MI · ~226 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Absopure Company #14 runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Naturally carbonated water, purifying and bottling workplace, earning a grade D.

Absopure Company #14: 4.5 TCR = 137% of Naturally carbonated water, purifying and bottling BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Absopure Company #14 safety composite

Absopure Company #14 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

−3.1

2016→2024

Absopure Company #14 injury rate improved

Absopure Company #14's TCR fell 3.1 from 4.1 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.1 · 2017=5.0 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=5.0 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312112 · Plymouth, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 137% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Bernicks Pepsi of Dr…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 87 inj
  • SIZE ~226 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bernicks Pepsi of Dresser (0.0 TCR gap)

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Absopure Company #14 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Absopure Company #14 averages 4.5 TCR (137% of the Naturally carbonated water, purifying and bottling BLS benchmark).

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

Absopure Company #14 TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=5 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=5 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Absopure Company #14 falls in its industry

192 Naturally carbonated water, pu establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

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 7 Naturally carbonated water, pu employers in Michigan.

Absopure Company #14 (226 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Absopure Company #14
Absopure Company #14 (226 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Absopure Company #14 has more employees than the Naturally carbonated water, purifying an median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 1.1 0.5 1 1 0
2023 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2022 4.8 3.9 11 0 0
2021 5.3 3.5 8 4 0
2020 9.2 8.0 21 2 0
2019 5.0 2.7 8 5 0
2018 5.5 3.1 15 3 0
2017 5.0 2.9 11 3 0
2016 4.1 3.4 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312112 · MI · Plymouth

192 Naturally carbonated water, purifying and bottling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 139 employers in Plymouth, 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 Bernicks Pepsi of Dresser 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CG Roxane LLC Olancha 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Culligan of NW Arkansas 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Niagara Bottling, LLC - Pittsburgh 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wyoming 3300 Manufacturig Facility 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corvac Composites - Kentwood 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Materials Holdings LLC 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOTION DYNAMICS CORPORATION 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADIENT LLC Headquarters 1,544 FTE
CITY-NEAR Webasto Roof Systems Inc. 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR Comprehensive Care Services, Inc. 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR 11021 648 FTE
NAT-TCR Vermont Foundry Company 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Nelson Industrial Services, Inc.-Okc 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bay City Hauling 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 814 Americas 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Country Meadows of Bethlehem 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE H.L. Chapman Pipeline Construction , Inc. 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Appleton 22 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE GATX Waycross Georgia 226 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, 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.