Academies, college or university · Michigan

Eastern Michigan University

Ypsilanti, MI · ~3,706 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Eastern Michigan University runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Academies, college or university workplace, earning a grade C.

Eastern Michigan University: 1.6 TCR = 116% of Academies, college or university BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Eastern Michigan University safety composite

Eastern Michigan University scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2016→2017

Eastern Michigan University injury rate improved

Eastern Michigan University's TCR fell 0.4 from 1.8 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.8 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.8 · 2017=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Ypsilanti, MI ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 1.6 · 116% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO NYU Langone School o…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 77 inj
  • SIZE ~3,706 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NYU Langone School of Medicine (0.0 TCR gap)

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Eastern Michigan University in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Eastern Michigan University averages 1.6 TCR (116% of the Academies, college or university BLS benchmark).

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

Eastern Michigan University TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=1.4 · BLS 1.4

Where Eastern Michigan University falls in its industry

347 Academies, college or universi establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Academies, college or universi employers in Michigan.

Eastern Michigan University (3,706 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University (3,706 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Eastern Michigan University has more employees than the Academies, college or university median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2017 1.4 0.8 33 1 0
2016 1.8 0.5 44 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · MI · Ypsilanti

347 Academies, college or university employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 128 employers in Ypsilanti, 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 NYU Langone School of Medicine 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Loma Linda University 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kankakee Area Jr College District 520 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Arizona University 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : DTW1 3,720 FTE
STATE-SIZE Detroit Assembly Complex Mack 3,669 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michigan Operations - Midland 3,755 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centria Healthcare LLC 3,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR RAWSONVILLE 679 FTE
CITY-NEAR Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eby-Brown Detroit 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eby-Brown Ypsilanti 341 FTE
NAT-TCR Timberland LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Louis - 4350 Semple Avenue 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gayesco-Wika Lp 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rivers Electrical Corp. 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Anthony's Medical Center 3,706 FTE
NAT-SIZE Astra Home Care 3,703 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - CMH4 3,710 FTE
NAT-SIZE Disney Studio Entertainment 3,701 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: 2017, 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.