City and town managers' offices · Michigan

City of Chelsea

Chelsea, MI · ~57 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Chelsea runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical City and town managers' offices workplace, earning a grade C.

City of Chelsea: 3.6 TCR = 114% of City and town managers' offices BLS 3.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Chelsea safety composite

City of Chelsea scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

City of Chelsea: 1.9 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.05× in 2024

City of Chelsea's TCR rose 5.6 from 1.9 in 2016 to 7.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Chelsea, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 114% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #31/79
  • PHOTO City of Shorewood
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Shorewood (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Chelsea in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Chelsea averages 3.6 TCR (114% of the City and town managers' offices BLS benchmark).

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

City of Chelsea TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=5.9 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Chelsea falls in its industry

1,010 City and town managers' office establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 79 City and town managers' office employers in Michigan.

City of Chelsea (57 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Chelsea
City of Chelsea (57 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Chelsea has fewer employees than the City and town managers' offices median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 7.5 7.5 4 0 0
2023 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2021 4.3 4.3 2 0 0
2020 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2019 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2018 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2017 5.9 3.9 3 0 0
2016 1.9 1.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · MI · Chelsea

1,010 City and town managers' offices 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR City of Shorewood 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Casey 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DPW Fleet Managment Services 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town Hall 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bloomingdale MI Facility 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville SC 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dickinson Homes 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concraft Inc 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital 1,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chelsea Proving Grounds 636 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Methodist Retirement Communities 411 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sheridan Books, Inc. 329 FTE
NAT-TCR Velocity Cambridge 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Barclay Brook Elementary School 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Days Inn 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rutherford Physician Practices-RRHS 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Miller's Merry Manor 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glendale Veneer 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gatlin Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elastec, Inc. 1309 57 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, 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.