Fruit sorting, grading, and packing · Michigan

Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin

Kewadin, MI · ~38 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fruit sorting, grading, and packing workplace, earning a grade C.

Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin: 5.2 TCR = 116% of Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin safety composite

Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2023→2024

Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin injury rate improved

Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin's TCR fell 0.6 from 5.5 in 2023 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.5 · 2024=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Kewadin, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.2 · 116% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO DMB Packing - Newman
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DMB Packing - Newman (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin averages 5.2 TCR (116% of the Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin TCR series: 2023=5.5 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin falls in its industry

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa employers in Michigan.

Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin (38 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin
Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin (38 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin has fewer employees than the Fruit sorting, grading, and packing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2024 4.9 4.9 2 0 0
2023 5.5 5.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · MI · Kewadin

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 3 employers in Kewadin, 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 DMB Packing - Newman 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Roots Nut Company, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prima Wawona - Plant 4 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Melrose Packinghouse 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Westview Orchards 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries, Inc - Webberville (Indoor) 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE McConnell & Scully, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menominee 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Lakes Packing Co 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kewadin Garage 35 FTE
NAT-TCR Ellenville Regional Hospital 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR American Demolition Corporation 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 01-CORP 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tasca Automotive Group North Two Inc 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Commonwealth Glen Allen 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Badgerland Hartland 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Del R Gilbert & Son Block Co., Inc 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valdosta Office 38 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: 2024, 2023. 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.