Cups, polystyrene foam, manufacturing · Michigan

ESCO Group Inc.

Grand Rapids, MI · ~54 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ESCO Group Inc. runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cups, polystyrene foam, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

ESCO Group Inc.: 6.0 TCR = 183% of Cups, polystyrene foam, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ESCO Group Inc. safety composite

ESCO Group Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

ESCO Group Inc.: 2.0 → 18.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.35× in 2024

ESCO Group Inc.'s TCR rose 16.5 from 2.0 in 2020 to 18.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326140 · Grand Rapids, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO Alleguard - Greer
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alleguard - Greer (0.0 TCR gap)

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ESCO Group Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ESCO Group Inc. averages 6.0 TCR (183% of the Cups, polystyrene foam, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

ESCO Group Inc. TCR series: 2020=2 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=8.1 · 2024=18.4 · BLS 3.3

Where ESCO Group Inc. falls in its industry

260 Cups, polystyrene foam, manufa establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 14 Cups, polystyrene foam, manufa employers in Michigan.

ESCO Group Inc. (54 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate ESCO Group Inc.
ESCO Group Inc. (54 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1

ESCO Group Inc. has fewer employees than the Cups, polystyrene foam, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2024 18.4 8.2 9 0 0
2023 8.1 6.1 4 0 0
2022 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326140 · MI · Grand Rapids

260 Cups, polystyrene foam, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 1,006 employers in Grand Rapids, 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 Alleguard - Greer 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACH Foam Technologies 3rd Street 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cellofoam-Sallisaw, OK-ROTO/FAB (NonEPS) 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Styrene Products, Inc. - Schofield, WI 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Residential Home Builder 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kalamazoo Facility 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE LS Brinker 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE ITC Operations-319 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA 9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Butterworth Hospital 7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR AGT Foods - Williston 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Jewish Home Of Eastern Pa 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SupplyOne Philadelphia 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NY State Solar Farmingdale 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 023-Gallup-Shop N Save 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenyon College** 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Braemar Living at Wallkill 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Distribution Centers LLC-1904 NW 97TH AVE 54 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. 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.