Apple orchards · Michigan

Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc

Ludington, MI · ~40 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc runs at 157% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Apple orchards workplace, earning a grade D.

Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc: 7.1 TCR = 157% of Apple orchards BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc safety composite

Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.2

2017→2024

Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc injury rate improved

Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc's TCR fell 4.2 from 6.8 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 111.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.8 · 2018=13.7 · 2019=9.1 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=111.1 · 2022=9.7 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111331 · Ludington, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.1 · 157% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO King Organics Inc
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: King Organics Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc averages 7.1 TCR (157% of the Apple orchards BLS benchmark).

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

Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc TCR series: 2017=6.8 · 2018=13.7 · 2019=9.1 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=111.1 · 2022=9.7 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc falls in its industry

90 Apple orchards establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Apple orchards employers in Michigan.

Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc (40 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc
Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc (40 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc has fewer employees than the Apple orchards median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2023 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 9.7 7.3 4 0 0
2021 111.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 5.5 5.5 2 0 0
2019 9.1 3.0 3 0 0
2018 13.7 8.2 5 0 0
2017 6.8 3.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111331 · MI · Ludington

90 Apple orchards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 55 employers in Ludington, 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 King Organics Inc 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR WACO 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mt Clifton Fruit Company 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR BM Administrative Services 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shelbyville, MI 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dan & Jerrys Pineview Greenhouse LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thumb Electric Cooperative of Michigan 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big Rapids Service Center 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Ludington Hospital - SHLH 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2102 294 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ludington 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2102 274 FTE
NAT-TCR HCLI headquarters 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Manahawkin 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR S05546 - WM North Sound 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ShopRite of Greenwich 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rycon Construction, Inc - Fort Lauderdale 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anaheim Plant #16 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redwood Empire Remanufacturing 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE ETS 40 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. 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.