Raw beet sugar manufacturing · Michigan

Bay City Factory

Bay City, MI · ~522 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Bay City Factory runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Raw beet sugar manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Bay City Factory: 7.3 TCR = 173% of Raw beet sugar manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bay City Factory safety composite

Bay City Factory scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 40% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

−0.8

2016→2024

Bay City Factory injury rate improved

Bay City Factory's TCR fell 0.8 from 7.1 in 2016 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.1 · 2017=9.2 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=11.1 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=7.1 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311313 · Bay City, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.3 · 173% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #5/11
  • PHOTO Blumfield Piling Gro…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 238 inj
  • SIZE ~522 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blumfield Piling Ground (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bay City Factory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bay City Factory averages 7.3 TCR (173% of the Raw beet sugar manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bay City Factory TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2017=9.2 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=11.1 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=7.1 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 4.2

Where Bay City Factory falls in its industry

44 Raw beet sugar manufacturing establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

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 11 Raw beet sugar manufacturing employers in Michigan.

Bay City Factory (522 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 221 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bay City Factory
Bay City Factory (522 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 221 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Bay City Factory has more employees than the Raw beet sugar manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 6.3 3.4 36 19 0
2023 6.3 4.7 28 3 0
2022 7.1 3.7 19 15 0
2021 6.9 2.1 21 12 0
2020 11.1 4.3 27 27 1
2019 7.3 3.3 27 10 0
2018 4.4 2.6 16 6 0
2017 9.2 4.7 30 17 0
2016 7.1 5.4 34 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311313 · MI · Bay City

44 Raw beet sugar manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 138 employers in Bay City, 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 Blumfield Piling Ground 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SIdney Sugars Incorporated 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern MN Beet Sugar Cooperative 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 093 - Lansing GM S Creyts Rd 522 FTE
STATE-SIZE LADD, INC 522 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Rapids SC 523 FTE
STATE-SIZE Comau Arlans 521 FTE
CITY-NEAR McLaren Bay Region 1,858 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bay Medical Center INC 1,655 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bay City Components 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bay City GPS 409 FTE
NAT-TCR Willamette Nurseries, Inc. 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1540 Lkq 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Rovanco Piping Systems, Inc 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vimco.300 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE ASC Engineered Solutions - (FKA Anvil Int.), Columbia Plant 522 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Chemours Company FC, LLC - Johnsonville 522 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ascend Performance Materials- Alvin Tx 522 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. - Hwy 80 Office 522 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.