Warehousing and Distribution · Michigan

Dawn Food Products - Detroit Distribution

Romulus, MI · ~70 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dawn Food Products - Detroit Distribution runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Warehousing and Distribution workplace, earning a grade D.

Dawn Food Products - Detroit Distribution: 8.8 TCR = 151% of Warehousing and Distribution BLS 5.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dawn Food Products - Detroit Distribution safety composite

Dawn Food Products - Detroit Distribution scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Dawn Food Products - Detroit Distribution held a steady TCR band

Dawn Food Products - Detroit Distribution's TCR held near 0.3 from 8.8 in 2016 to 9.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 12.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.8 · 2018=10.2 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=11.0 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=12.7 · 2023=10.8 · 2024=9.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Romulus, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.8 · 151% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #17/21
  • PHOTO Americold Logistics,…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Americold Logistics, LLC: Moses Lake (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dawn Food Products - Detroit Distribution in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dawn Food Products - Detroit Distribution averages 8.8 TCR (151% of the Warehousing and Distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Dawn Food Products - Detroit Distribution TCR series: 2016=8.8 · 2018=10.2 · 2019=0 · 2020=11 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=12.7 · 2023=10.8 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 5.8

Where Dawn Food Products - Detroit Distribution falls in its industry

1,039 Warehousing and Distribution establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 21 Warehousing and Distribution employers in Michigan.

Dawn Food Products - Detroit Distribution (70 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dawn Food Products - Detroit Distribution
Dawn Food Products - Detroit Distribution (70 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Dawn Food Products - Detroit Distribution has more employees than the Warehousing and Distribution median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 9.1 7.3 5 0 0
2023 10.8 10.8 6 0 0
2022 12.7 12.7 6 1 0
2021 7.5 7.5 4 0 0
2020 11.0 9.2 5 1 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 10.2 2.9 7 0 0
2016 8.8 3.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · MI · Romulus

1,039 Warehousing and Distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 199 employers in Romulus, 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 Americold Logistics, LLC: Moses Lake 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pottsville Distribution Center 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PDI 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Greater Boston Food Bank 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trail Street 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Christman Company - West Michigan 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Retail Contractors of Puerto Rico Inc 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earthcom, Inc. 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : DTW1 3,720 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DTW1 3,502 FTE
CITY-NEAR Romulus Powertrain 1,336 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Romulus 1,037 FTE
NAT-TCR Franciscan Health Olympia Fields 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rocla Concrete Tie, Inc - Delaware Facility 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Jons# 16 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sant-Tec Electric, Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Designetics, Inc. 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shea Properties-TCM 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Usc Verdugo Hills Hospital 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Gary Comm School Dining 70 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.