Chipboard (I.e., particle core, wood chip face), manufacturing · Michigan

Arauco North America Grayling

Grayling, MI · ~180 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Arauco North America Grayling runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chipboard (I.e., particle core, wood chip face), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Arauco North America Grayling: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Chipboard (I.e., particle core, wood chip face), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Arauco North America Grayling safety composite

Arauco North America Grayling scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Arauco North America Grayling: 1.6 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2019

Arauco North America Grayling's TCR rose 0.7 from 1.6 in 2018 to 2.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321219 · Grayling, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Arcadia OSB
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arcadia OSB (0.0 TCR gap)

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Arauco North America Grayling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Arauco North America Grayling averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Chipboard (I.e., particle core, wood chip face), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Arauco North America Grayling TCR series: 2018=1.6 · 2019=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Arauco North America Grayling falls in its industry

125 Chipboard (I.e., particle core establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Chipboard (I.e., particle core employers in Michigan.

Arauco North America Grayling (180 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Arauco North America Grayling
Arauco North America Grayling (180 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Arauco North America Grayling has more employees than the Chipboard (I.e., particle core, wood chi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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
2019 2.2 1.5 6 0 0
2018 1.6 0.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321219 · MI · Grayling

125 Chipboard (I.e., particle core, wood chip face), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 32 employers in Grayling, 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 Arcadia OSB 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grayling 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norbord 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AR207 Hope Particleboard 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Manistee Chemicals 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ascent Aerospace- Macomb (GTS) 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Office 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Fastener Corp Decatur MI 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munson Healthcare Grayling Hospital 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grayling Hospital 551 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arauco North America 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fick & Sons, Inc 122 FTE
NAT-TCR Palm Beach Resource Recovery Corporation 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Covanta MacArthur Renewable Energy, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bravo! Building Services Regional Bbspa 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Atmosphere Annealing LLC, N. Vernon Facility 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bayshore Library 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Dorado Library 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mark Twain Library 180 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: 2019, 2018. 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.