Hydraulic pumps, fluid power, manufacturing · Michigan

Bucher Hydraulics - Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids, MI · ~183 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bucher Hydraulics - Grand Rapids runs at 17% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hydraulic pumps, fluid power, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Bucher Hydraulics - Grand Rapids: 0.6 TCR = 17% of Hydraulic pumps, fluid power, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bucher Hydraulics - Grand Rapids safety composite

Bucher Hydraulics - Grand Rapids scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Bucher Hydraulics - Grand Rapids: 0.2 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 0.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2021

Bucher Hydraulics - Grand Rapids's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.2 in 2020 to 0.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333996 · Grand Rapids, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 17% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Grundfos Pumps Corpo…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~183 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grundfos Pumps Corporation (0.1 TCR gap)

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Bucher Hydraulics - Grand Rapids in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bucher Hydraulics - Grand Rapids averages 0.6 TCR (17% of the Hydraulic pumps, fluid power, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bucher Hydraulics - Grand Rapids TCR series: 2020=0.2 · 2021=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Bucher Hydraulics - Grand Rapids falls in its industry

74 Hydraulic pumps, fluid power, establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Hydraulic pumps, fluid power, employers in Michigan.

Bucher Hydraulics - Grand Rapids (183 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 128 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bucher Hydraulics - Grand Rapids
Bucher Hydraulics - Grand Rapids (183 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 128 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Bucher Hydraulics - Grand Rapids has more employees than the Hydraulic pumps, fluid power, manufactur median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2021 0.9 0.5 2 0 0
2020 0.2 0.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333996 · MI · Grand Rapids

74 Hydraulic pumps, fluid power, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 1,006 employers in Grand Rapids, 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 Grundfos Pumps Corporation 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Motion Systems : Greeneville 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Motion Systems : Rohnert Park 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Finish Thompson Inc 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Walther Farms LLC 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wyoming Manufacturing Facility - KNA 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lear Corporation - Farwell 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Jordan Plastics Beaverton 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA 9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Butterworth Hospital 7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR Cesares Collision Repair & Towing 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Entergy Conway 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR *Gaylor Electric, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ilchcg-Yapi-Chicago Cook County 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 437-DC001 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashland 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alterman Austin 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Office Furniture 183 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: 2021, 2020. 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.