Warehousing, refrigerated · Michigan

Founders Brewing - 900 Hynes

Grand Rapids, MI · ~21 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Founders Brewing - 900 Hynes runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Warehousing, refrigerated workplace, earning a grade C.

Founders Brewing - 900 Hynes: 5.1 TCR = 88% of Warehousing, refrigerated BLS 5.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Founders Brewing - 900 Hynes safety composite

Founders Brewing - 900 Hynes 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.12 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

Founders Brewing - 900 Hynes: 11.4 → 12.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.38× in 2021

Founders Brewing - 900 Hynes's TCR rose 0.8 from 11.4 in 2016 to 12.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Grand Rapids, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.1 · 88% of ind

  • DART 12.1 DART
  • RANK #9/21
  • PHOTO Kansas City(Edwardsv…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kansas City(Edwardsville)-PRW (0.0 TCR gap)

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Founders Brewing - 900 Hynes in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Founders Brewing - 900 Hynes averages 5.1 TCR (88% of the Warehousing, refrigerated BLS benchmark).

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

Founders Brewing - 900 Hynes TCR series: 2016=11.4 · 2017=0 · 2018=0.1 · 2019=0 · 2020=7 · 2021=12.1 · BLS 5.8

Where Founders Brewing - 900 Hynes falls in its industry

1,039 Warehousing, refrigerated establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 21 Warehousing, refrigerated employers in Michigan.

Founders Brewing - 900 Hynes (21 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Founders Brewing - 900 Hynes
Founders Brewing - 900 Hynes (21 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Founders Brewing - 900 Hynes has fewer employees than the Warehousing, refrigerated median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2021 12.1 12.1 2 0 0
2020 7.0 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 11.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · MI · Grand Rapids

1,039 Warehousing, refrigerated 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 Kansas City(Edwardsville)-PRW 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 2 Coldstorage 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Refrigerated Warehouse 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Omaha Steaks DC 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms Sturgis 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE BE Cultivation 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4605_15228 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willard DeHaan & Son Grnhs 21 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 Hanes GEO Componets 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Inc San Antonio (102 and 300) 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Care at Home (247-SACHS) 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Berlin Park And Recreation 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ayala Boring Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE School for the Deaf 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 78th & Dodge Goodwill Retail Store 21 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: 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.