Berries, canned, manufacturing · Michigan

Empire Manufacturing and Fulfillment

Glen Arbor, MI · ~60 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Manufacturing and Fulfillment runs at 232% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Berries, canned, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Empire Manufacturing and Fulfillment: 7.7 TCR = 232% of Berries, canned, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Manufacturing and Fulfillment safety composite

Empire Manufacturing and Fulfillment scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Empire Manufacturing and Fulfillment: 2.1 → 13.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.44× in 2023

Empire Manufacturing and Fulfillment's TCR rose 11.1 from 2.1 in 2022 to 13.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Glen Arbor, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 232% of ind

  • DART 11.0 DART
  • RANK #33/41
  • PHOTO Knouse Foods Coop, I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Biglerville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Manufacturing and Fulfillment in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Manufacturing and Fulfillment averages 7.7 TCR (232% of the Berries, canned, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Manufacturing and Fulfillment TCR series: 2022=2.1 · 2023=13.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Empire Manufacturing and Fulfillment falls in its industry

330 Berries, canned, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 41 Berries, canned, manufacturing employers in Michigan.

Empire Manufacturing and Fulfillment (60 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Empire Manufacturing and Fulfillment
Empire Manufacturing and Fulfillment (60 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Empire Manufacturing and Fulfillment has fewer employees than the Berries, canned, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2023 13.2 11.0 1 5 0
2022 2.1 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · MI · Glen Arbor

330 Berries, canned, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 3 employers in Glen Arbor, 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 Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Biglerville 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR POPPIE'S PICKLE PRODUCTS, INC. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bruce Foods Corp 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Downtown Plant 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Konos DBA Vande Bunte Eggs 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marquette Board of Light & Power 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hamilton SC 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE VanDam & Krusinga Building and Restoration 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glen Arbor Campus 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Headquarters 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Homeland 127 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 033-FF01-MENASHA 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lumbermen's Indiana 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR I am Boundless Inc. 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plastic Printers 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bashas 128 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bashas 102 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City 025 60 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.