Cutting of purchased carcasses (except boxed meat cut on an assembly-line basis) merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Bert Hazekamp & Son

Muskegon, MI · ~134 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bert Hazekamp & Son runs at 415% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cutting of purchased carcasses (except boxed meat cut on an assembly-line basis) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Bert Hazekamp & Son: 9.1 TCR = 415% of Cutting of purchased carcasses (except boxed meat cut on an assembly-line basis) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bert Hazekamp & Son safety composite

Bert Hazekamp & Son scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Bert Hazekamp & Son: 7.0 → 122.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 122.0 TCR · DART/TCR 4.45× in 2020

Bert Hazekamp & Son's TCR rose 115.0 from 7.0 in 2018 to 122.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 4.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424470 · Muskegon, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 415% of ind

  • DART 40.7 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO Frank Brunkhorst Co.…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~134 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Frank Brunkhorst Co., LLC Groveport (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bert Hazekamp & Son in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bert Hazekamp & Son averages 9.1 TCR (415% of the Cutting of purchased carcasses (except boxed meat cut on an assembly-line basis) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Bert Hazekamp & Son TCR series: 2018=7 · 2019=11.2 · 2020=122 · BLS 2.2

Where Bert Hazekamp & Son falls in its industry

162 Cutting of purchased carcasses establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #10 safest of 11 Cutting of purchased carcasses employers in Michigan.

Bert Hazekamp & Son (134 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Bert Hazekamp & Son
Bert Hazekamp & Son (134 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Bert Hazekamp & Son has more employees than the Cutting of purchased carcasses (except b 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
2020 122.0 40.7 15 3 0
2019 11.2 4.4 18 0 0
2018 7.0 3.1 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424470 · MI · Muskegon

162 Cutting of purchased carcasses (except boxed meat cut on an assembly-line basis) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 230 employers in Muskegon, 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 Frank Brunkhorst Co., LLC Groveport 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moesle Meat Distribution Co. 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newport Meat of Nevada 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poultry Products Of NE 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Underground Contractors, Inc. 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE JRUSA-Schoolcraft 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE K056-M001 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Production 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Partners - Sherman Campus 3,461 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Partners-1500 E Sherman BLVD-MH-MI 2,598 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Partners - Hackley 1,329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Arena 861 FTE
NAT-TCR Mercy Philadelphia Hospital 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Parts House Loc 3 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Star Seafoods 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Loews Hotel 1000, Seattle 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 40 Pine St 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Senior Living 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jerry's Fruit and Garden Center 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honeywell Houston Technology Center 134 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.