Food testing laboratories or services · Michigan

Battle Creek WKKI Pilot Plant and Corporate Office

Battle Creek, MI · ~420 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Battle Creek WKKI Pilot Plant and Corporate Office runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Food testing laboratories or services workplace, earning a grade B.

Battle Creek WKKI Pilot Plant and Corporate Office: 0.4 TCR = 80% of Food testing laboratories or services BLS 0.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Battle Creek WKKI Pilot Plant and Corporate Office safety composite

Battle Creek WKKI Pilot Plant and Corporate Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

Battle Creek WKKI Pilot Plant and Corporate Office held a steady TCR band

Battle Creek WKKI Pilot Plant and Corporate Office's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.4 in 2016 to 0.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 0.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.4 · 2017=0.9 · 2018=0.4 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.6 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541380 · Battle Creek, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 0.4 · 80% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/31
  • PHOTO ADVANCED ENGINEERING…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~420 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ADVANCED ENGINEERING CENTER (0.0 TCR gap)

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Battle Creek WKKI Pilot Plant and Corporate Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Battle Creek WKKI Pilot Plant and Corporate Office averages 0.4 TCR (80% of the Food testing laboratories or services BLS benchmark).

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

Battle Creek WKKI Pilot Plant and Corporate Office TCR series: 2016=0.4 · 2017=0.9 · 2018=0.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=0.6 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.3 · BLS 0.5

Where Battle Creek WKKI Pilot Plant and Corporate Office falls in its industry

232 Food testing laboratories or s establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 31 Food testing laboratories or s employers in Michigan.

Battle Creek WKKI Pilot Plant and Corporate Office (420 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Battle Creek WKKI Pilot Plant and Corporate Office
Battle Creek WKKI Pilot Plant and Corporate Office (420 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0

Battle Creek WKKI Pilot Plant and Corporate Office has more employees than the Food testing laboratories or services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.0. 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
2023 0.3 0.0 0 1 0
2022 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2020 0.6 0.0 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.4 0.2 2 0 0
2017 0.9 0.2 4 0 0
2016 0.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541380 · MI · Battle Creek

232 Food testing laboratories or services 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 ADVANCED ENGINEERING CENTER 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milford Proving Ground 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR HERZOG SERVICES INC 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Core Laboratories LP Houston Windfern 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alta Gas SEMCO Energy INC 420 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knape & Vogt Oak Manufacturing 420 FTE
STATE-SIZE L.E. Jones Company 420 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twelve Oaks 302 420 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 Eastern North Regional Sales Office 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Window and Door Showplace, Inc 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Senske Lawn and Tree Care - Headquarters 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Oryx Oilfield Holdings LLC. 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Galvez's LDP Inc. 420 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wissahickon Hospice 420 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pekin Hospital 420 FTE
NAT-SIZE Department of Human Resources 420 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: 2023, 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.