Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Berghorst Foods

Grandville, MI · ~24 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berghorst Foods runs at 307% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Berghorst Foods: 6.8 TCR = 307% of Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berghorst Foods safety composite

Berghorst Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Berghorst Foods: 3.6 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2024

Berghorst Foods's TCR rose 8.0 from 3.6 in 2018 to 11.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 12.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Grandville, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 307% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #20/47
  • PHOTO Vistar Rocky Mountai…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vistar Rocky Mountain - 1003 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Berghorst Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berghorst Foods averages 6.8 TCR (307% of the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Berghorst Foods TCR series: 2018=3.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=12.7 · 2021=12.8 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=11.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Berghorst Foods falls in its industry

1,651 Groceries, general-line, merch establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 47 Groceries, general-line, merch employers in Michigan.

Berghorst Foods (24 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Berghorst Foods
Berghorst Foods (24 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Berghorst Foods has fewer employees than the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 11.6 5.8 1 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.4 6.4 1 0 0
2021 12.8 12.8 2 0 0
2020 12.7 12.7 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · MI · Grandville

1,651 Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 95 employers in Grandville, 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 Vistar Rocky Mountain - 1003 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jake's, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sysco Intermountain 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Foods Salt Lake City 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Medina Dairy, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sturgis 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE CE Innovation Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Filtration and Meter Shop 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR SERV-U-SUCCESS 1,706 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thrifty Retail Services LLC 1,265 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2567 332 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meijer Store 221 289 FTE
NAT-TCR Topsham Store 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sacramento Hcc/Hvc 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Morgan County Jail/Sheriff's Office 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Checkers Industrial Products LLC 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Inca Sardis 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE ReSteel Supply Co. Inc. West Virginia 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE B& F Fastener Supply - MPLS 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE NA-US-CA-Victorville-Phantom West 24 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. 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.