Road construction · Michigan

Cass County Road Commission

Cassopolis, MI · ~42 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cass County Road Commission runs at 330% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Road construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Cass County Road Commission: 9.2 TCR = 330% of Road construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cass County Road Commission safety composite

Cass County Road Commission scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Cass County Road Commission: 13.9 → 18.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

Cass County Road Commission's TCR rose 4.5 from 13.9 in 2016 to 18.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Cassopolis, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 330% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #106/139
  • PHOTO Lakeside Industries …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lakeside Industries (070) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cass County Road Commission in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cass County Road Commission averages 9.2 TCR (330% of the Road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Cass County Road Commission TCR series: 2016=13.9 · 2019=9.7 · 2021=13.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=18.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Cass County Road Commission falls in its industry

4,078 Road construction establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #106 safest of 139 Road construction employers in Michigan.

Cass County Road Commission (42 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Cass County Road Commission
Cass County Road Commission (42 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Cass County Road Commission has fewer employees than the Road construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 18.4 4.6 7 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 13.3 5.3 4 1 0
2019 9.7 0.0 4 0 0
2016 13.9 2.3 3 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MI · Cassopolis

4,078 Road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 14 employers in Cassopolis, 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 Lakeside Industries (070) 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Curb & Gutter Co 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highway Department 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Macon County Highway Department 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE General Meter 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gas Construction Jackson 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pennings & Sons 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE CR Meyer - Muskegon 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Postle Extrusion 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midwest Energy Cooperative 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cass County Medical Care Facility 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midwest Energy & Communications 137 FTE
NAT-TCR Bake Works, Inc 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nkyops-Pdm-North Ky Ops 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ATG Manchester 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Stericycle - Tempe,AZ 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE S08485 - Wellsboro Hauling 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE StairSupplies, 1010 Eisenhower Dr. South 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spartan Infrastructure, Inc 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE E & B PAVING LLC - Rochester 42 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, 2019, 2016. 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.