Horseradish, prepared sauce, manufacturing · Michigan

Garden Fresh Gourmet

Ferndale, MI · ~322 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Garden Fresh Gourmet runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Horseradish, prepared sauce, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Garden Fresh Gourmet: 2.0 TCR = 49% of Horseradish, prepared sauce, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Garden Fresh Gourmet safety composite

Garden Fresh Gourmet scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Garden Fresh Gourmet held a steady TCR band

Garden Fresh Gourmet's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.5 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.5 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311941 · Ferndale, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 49% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Develey Mustard and …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~322 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Develey Mustard and Condiments (0.0 TCR gap)

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Garden Fresh Gourmet in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Garden Fresh Gourmet averages 2.0 TCR (49% of the Horseradish, prepared sauce, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Garden Fresh Gourmet TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=2.7 · BLS 4.1

Where Garden Fresh Gourmet falls in its industry

134 Horseradish, prepared sauce, m establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Horseradish, prepared sauce, m employers in Michigan.

Garden Fresh Gourmet (322 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 Garden Fresh Gourmet
Garden Fresh Gourmet (322 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Garden Fresh Gourmet has more employees than the Horseradish, prepared sauce, manufacturi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2019 2.7 1.9 10 0 0
2018 0.9 0.6 3 0 0
2016 2.5 2.2 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · MI · Ferndale

134 Horseradish, prepared sauce, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 28 employers in Ferndale, 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 Develey Mustard and Condiments 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventura Foods Chambersburg 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marzetti Indianola 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mizkan America 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Detroit Axle 322 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1936 322 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1593 322 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland - GR 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Kingswood Hospital 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kingswood Hospital 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR Progressive Mechanical, Inc 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR 018-00642 117 FTE
NAT-TCR Ritus Plastics 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Turner's Outdoorsman 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 30402 - Capstone Dollar General Zanesville Oh 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sales - Seaside WBW 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Farmington Office 322 FTE
NAT-SIZE Region 032 Asplundh 322 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Benning LRC GA0544 322 FTE
NAT-SIZE NY0153CN4 322 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.