Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Michigan

City of South Haven - Police Department

South Haven, MI · ~32 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of South Haven - Police Department runs at 420% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

City of South Haven - Police Department: 13.4 TCR = 420% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of South Haven - Police Department safety composite

City of South Haven - Police Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.7

2019→2024

City of South Haven - Police Department injury rate improved

City of South Haven - Police Department's TCR fell 1.7 from 15.2 in 2019 to 13.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 17.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=15.2 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=17.0 · 2022=16.1 · 2023=12.9 · 2024=13.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · South Haven, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.4 · 420% of ind

  • DART 10.1 DART
  • RANK #25/33
  • PHOTO Police
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Police (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of South Haven - Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of South Haven - Police Department averages 13.4 TCR (420% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

City of South Haven - Police Department TCR series: 2019=15.2 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=17 · 2022=16.1 · 2023=12.9 · 2024=13.4 · BLS 3.2

Where City of South Haven - Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 33 Police departments (except Ame employers in Michigan.

City of South Haven - Police Department (32 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate City of South Haven - Police Department
City of South Haven - Police Department (32 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

City of South Haven - Police Department has fewer employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 13.4 10.1 4 0 0
2023 12.9 9.7 4 0 0
2022 16.1 3.2 4 1 0
2021 17.0 0.0 4 1 0
2020 6.2 0.0 2 0 0
2019 15.2 0.0 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · MI · South Haven

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 30 employers in South Haven, 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 Police 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glendale Police Department 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Station 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department - Village of Fox Lake 13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6801_15743 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Soil Dairy 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berrybrook 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Tawas 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1540 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bronson South Haven 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1540 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meijer Store 271 242 FTE
NAT-TCR Gronen Properties LLC 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TXH063 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR AZP045 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sixel & Schwinn, Inc. 13.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pittsburgh, PA Office 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Global Metal Works & Erectors 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE MMT Technology, Inc 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Los Ninos Hospital Inc 32 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.