Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake) made in flour mills · Michigan

Chelsea Milling Company

Name: Chelsea Milling Company Workplace Safety Data
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Chelsea, MI · ~326 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Chelsea Milling Company runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake) made in flour mills workplace, earning a grade C.

Chelsea Milling Company: 3.2 TCR = 96% of Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake) made in flour mills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chelsea Milling Company safety composite

Chelsea Milling Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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).

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

Chelsea Milling Company: 1.8 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2024

Chelsea Milling Company's TCR rose 1.6 from 1.8 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311211 · Chelsea, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 96% of ind

DART 2.4 DART
RANK #3/10
PHOTO F.M. Brown's Sons, I…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 44 inj
SIZE ~326 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: F.M. Brown's Sons, Inc- Flour Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Chelsea Milling Company averages 3.2 TCR (96% of the Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake) made in flour mills BLS benchmark).

Chelsea Milling Company TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2018=4.6 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Chelsea Milling Company falls in its industry

209 Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, c establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 10 Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, c employers in Michigan.

Chelsea Milling Company (326 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Chelsea Milling Company has more employees than the Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, dough median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2024	3.5	2.4	13
2023	2.9	2.6	11
2018	4.6	2.9	14
2016	1.8	0.6	6

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311211 · MI · Chelsea

209 Mixes, flour (e.g., biscuit, cake, doughnut, pancake) made in flour mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 27 employers in Chelsea, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	F.M. Brown's Sons, Inc- Flour Division	FLEETWOOD, PA	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Azteca Milling	PLAINVIEW, TX	3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	JRUSA-Wellsville	WELLSVILLE, WV	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	General Mills (Buffalo Flour)	BUFFALO, NY	3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	ZF Chassis Components	LAPEER	326 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2238	MUSKEGON	326 FTE
STATE-SIZE	5065	KALAMAZOO	326 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 5065	KALAMAZOO	326 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital	Chelsea	1,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chelsea Proving Grounds	Chelsea	636 FTE
CITY-NEAR	United Methodist Retirement Communities	Chelsea	411 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sheridan Books, Inc.	Chelsea	329 FTE
NAT-TCR	2K General Company, Inc.	Delaware, OH	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Accel Inc	New Albany, OH	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	LOCKBOURNE	Lockbourne, OH	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corp. DC4	Newnan, GA	3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Detroit Diesel Remanufacturing LLC- Plant 1, Byesville, OH	Byesville, OH	326 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sacramento Kings	Sacramento, CA	326 FTE
NAT-SIZE	OakLeaf Surgical Hospital	Altoona, WI	326 FTE
NAT-SIZE	FST Technical Services LLC	Chandler, AZ	326 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, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.