Creamery butter manufacturing · Michigan

Butterball Farms, Inc.

Grand Rapids, MI · ~142 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Butterball Farms, Inc. runs at 212% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Creamery butter manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Butterball Farms, Inc.: 7.0 TCR = 212% of Creamery butter manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Butterball Farms, Inc. safety composite

Butterball Farms, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Butterball Farms, Inc.: 6.4 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2024

Butterball Farms, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.8 from 6.4 in 2018 to 10.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311512 · Grand Rapids, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 212% of ind

  • DART 10.2 DART
  • RANK P9
  • PHOTO Plant
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~142 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plant (0.2 TCR gap)

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Butterball Farms, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Butterball Farms, Inc. averages 7.0 TCR (212% of the Creamery butter manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Butterball Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2018=6.4 · 2021=8 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=10.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Butterball Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

32 Creamery butter manufacturing establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Butterball Farms, Inc. (142 employees, TCR 7.0) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 4.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 23 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Butterball Farms, Inc.
Butterball Farms, Inc. (142 employees, TCR 7.0) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Butterball Farms, Inc. has more employees than the Creamery butter manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 10.2 10.2 15 0 0
2023 4.4 4.4 7 0 0
2022 6.2 6.2 8 0 0
2021 8.0 8.0 9 0 0
2018 6.4 6.4 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311512 · MI · Grand Rapids

32 Creamery butter 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 Plant 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Logan facility 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Associated Milk Producers Inc (Butter Plant) 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE LGC FM Global Energy 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moore Electrical Service, Inc. 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Electric, Inc 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eliason Corporation 142 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 Flftl - Ft Lauderdale 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Oracaz-Inc-Oracle,Az - Arizona 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Phillips Angelica Forest Products LLC 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Transport - 631 631SH 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Phillips Hardy Inc 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Abilities of Northwest Jersey Inc 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Geremarie Corporation 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE USF Fabrication, Inc. 142 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, 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.