Fuel oil truck jobbers · Michigan

Foster Blue Water Oil

Bay City, MI · ~25 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foster Blue Water Oil runs at 245% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fuel oil truck jobbers workplace, earning a grade F.

Foster Blue Water Oil: 5.4 TCR = 245% of Fuel oil truck jobbers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foster Blue Water Oil safety composite

Foster Blue Water Oil scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Foster Blue Water Oil: 8.6 → 13.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2023

Foster Blue Water Oil's TCR rose 5.3 from 8.6 in 2016 to 13.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424720 · Bay City, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.4 · 245% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO Borthwick Location
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Borthwick Location (0.0 TCR gap)

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Foster Blue Water Oil in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foster Blue Water Oil averages 5.4 TCR (245% of the Fuel oil truck jobbers BLS benchmark).

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

Foster Blue Water Oil TCR series: 2016=8.6 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=7.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=0 · 2023=13.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Foster Blue Water Oil falls in its industry

218 Fuel oil truck jobbers establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

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 10 Fuel oil truck jobbers employers in Michigan.

Foster Blue Water Oil (25 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Foster Blue Water Oil
Foster Blue Water Oil (25 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Foster Blue Water Oil has fewer employees than the Fuel oil truck jobbers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 13.9 6.9 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.6 3.8 2 0 0
2017 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2016 8.6 4.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424720 · MI · Bay City

218 Fuel oil truck jobbers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 138 employers in Bay City, 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 Borthwick Location 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nittany Oil Co. Inc 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Lubricants-North Tonawanda 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bandy's Inc-Lookout, WV 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hazel Park 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayside Best Beans LLC. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-County Electric- Blanchard 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wastewater Treatment Plant 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR McLaren Bay Region 1,858 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bay Medical Center INC 1,655 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bay City Factory 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bay City Components 421 FTE
NAT-TCR American Greenfuels LLC 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Foxfire Property Management, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Therapy Solutions, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR American Red Cross - 1102 S 16th St 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Save a Lot 2185 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jen Air Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oxley 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orlando Terminal 25 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.