Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Essendant: Grand Rapids OE

Walker, MI · ~46 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essendant: Grand Rapids OE runs at 261% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Essendant: Grand Rapids OE: 5.8 TCR = 261% of Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essendant: Grand Rapids OE safety composite

Essendant: Grand Rapids OE scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−10.0

2019→2022

Essendant: Grand Rapids OE injury rate improved

Essendant: Grand Rapids OE's TCR fell 10.0 from 10.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 13.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=10.0 · 2020=13.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424120 · Walker, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.8 · 261% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P17
  • PHOTO Commercial Stationar…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Commercial Stationary Wholesalers (0.2 TCR gap)

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Essendant: Grand Rapids OE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essendant: Grand Rapids OE averages 5.8 TCR (261% of the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Essendant: Grand Rapids OE TCR series: 2019=10 · 2020=13 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Essendant: Grand Rapids OE falls in its industry

87 Stationery supplies merchant w establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Essendant: Grand Rapids OE (46 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 05,00010,00015,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Essendant: Grand Rapids OE
Essendant: Grand Rapids OE (46 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Essendant: Grand Rapids OE has fewer employees than the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 13.0 13.0 4 0 0
2019 10.0 5.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424120 · MI · Walker

87 Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 67 employers in Walker, 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 Commercial Stationary Wholesalers 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hallmark Distribution Carefree 1150 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Distribution Management Inc. DC-PET 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Punch Studio, LLC - Figueroa Warehouse 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fresh Solution Farms 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE DBA FALKNER FARMS 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROB MAINTENANCE 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE EDL Energy 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DGR1 793 FTE
CITY-NEAR BHI Bissell Homecare Inc. 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Walker Stamping & Assembly (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 1) 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Contract Manufacturing Grand Rapids 465 FTE
NAT-TCR Save A Lot #138 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Service Unlimited Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Shreveport 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Arcadia Beverage LLC 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE EMS - Corporate 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE George DeLallo Company - Retail 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE EMS - Gooding 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hunter Truck - Swedesboro 46 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.