City and town managers' offices · Michigan

Benton Charter Township

Benton Harbor, MI · ~85 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Benton Charter Township runs at 587% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical City and town managers' offices workplace, earning a grade F.

Benton Charter Township: 18.8 TCR = 587% of City and town managers' offices BLS 3.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Benton Charter Township safety composite

Benton Charter Township scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

Benton Charter Township: 10.2 → 20.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 26.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.07× in 2024

Benton Charter Township's TCR rose 10.2 from 10.2 in 2016 to 20.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 26.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Benton Harbor, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.8 · 587% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #79/79
  • PHOTO County of Eaton
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 129 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: County of Eaton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Benton Charter Township in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Benton Charter Township averages 18.8 TCR (587% of the City and town managers' offices BLS benchmark).

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

Benton Charter Township TCR series: 2016=10.2 · 2017=20.3 · 2018=26.7 · 2019=20.3 · 2020=12.7 · 2021=17.8 · 2022=19.1 · 2023=21.7 · 2024=20.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Benton Charter Township falls in its industry

1,010 City and town managers' office establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #79 safest of 79 City and town managers' office employers in Michigan.

Benton Charter Township (85 employees, TCR 18.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Benton Charter Township
Benton Charter Township (85 employees, TCR 18.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Benton Charter Township has fewer employees than the City and town managers' offices median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 20.4 1.3 16 0 0
2023 21.7 1.3 17 0 0
2022 19.1 1.3 15 0 0
2021 17.8 0.0 13 1 0
2020 12.7 1.3 8 2 0
2019 20.3 1.3 16 0 0
2018 26.7 1.3 21 0 0
2017 20.3 2.5 15 1 0
2016 10.2 2.5 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · MI · Benton Harbor

1,010 City and town managers' offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 74 employers in Benton Harbor, 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 County of Eaton 18.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Urbana 18.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Eyota 18.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Harwinton 18.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Owen Ames Kimball Co. 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Giannetti Contracting Corporation 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE JJ Barney Construction Inc. 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circuit Electric Michigan 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2062 332 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gast Manufacturing 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2062 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Idex 281 FTE
NAT-TCR 00394-W002 18.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Buena Vista Ve 18.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Montebello Care Center 18.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Parallel 33 Fingerjoint 18.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Paulaur Corporation 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE NA-US-MA-Marlborough-St. Martin Drive 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royersford 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quapaw 85 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.