Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers · Michigan

Great Lakes Ferndale

Ferndale, MI · ~35 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Ferndale runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Great Lakes Ferndale: 3.0 TCR = 138% of Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Ferndale safety composite

Great Lakes Ferndale scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

−4.2

2016→2023

Great Lakes Ferndale injury rate improved

Great Lakes Ferndale's TCR fell 4.2 from 7.4 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.4 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Ferndale, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.0 · 138% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #16/28
  • PHOTO Brenntag Great Lakes…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brenntag Great Lakes - Toledo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Ferndale in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Ferndale averages 3.0 TCR (138% of the Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Great Lakes Ferndale TCR series: 2016=7.4 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=3.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Great Lakes Ferndale falls in its industry

766 Other Chemical and Allied Prod establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 28 Other Chemical and Allied Prod employers in Michigan.

Great Lakes Ferndale (35 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Great Lakes Ferndale
Great Lakes Ferndale (35 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Great Lakes Ferndale has fewer employees than the Other Chemical and Allied Products Merch median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2023 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2022 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2019 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.6 4.6 2 0 0
2016 7.4 7.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · MI · Ferndale

766 Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers 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 Brenntag Great Lakes - Toledo 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bessemer 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR nexAir Knoxville Healthcare 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brenntag Pacific - South Gate 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heeren, LLC - 42 North Apples 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harbor Farmz, North LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willow Point Dairy 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE POWER & UTILITIES OPERATIONS - ROB 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Garden Fresh Gourmet 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Kingswood Hospital 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kingswood Hospital 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR Progressive Mechanical, Inc 212 FTE
NAT-TCR Ullman Electric 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Lions Gate Seniors 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NurseCore of Ocala 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Visalia, Ca #00004 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kapolei, Hawaii 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE N Las Vegas 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belton Plant 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality Rebar, Inc. 35 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, 2022, 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.