Commissaries, primarily groceries · Michigan

Harding's Friendly Market #397

Kalamazoo, MI · ~38 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Harding's Friendly Market #397 runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Commissaries, primarily groceries workplace, earning a grade A.

Harding's Friendly Market #397: 1.4 TCR = 41% of Commissaries, primarily groceries BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Harding's Friendly Market #397 safety composite

Harding's Friendly Market #397 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−3.2

2017→2021

Harding's Friendly Market #397 injury rate improved

Harding's Friendly Market #397's TCR fell 3.2 from 3.2 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.2 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Kalamazoo, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 41% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #40/536
  • PHOTO 10424 Tenaya
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 10424 Tenaya (0.0 TCR gap)

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Harding's Friendly Market #397 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Harding's Friendly Market #397 averages 1.4 TCR (41% of the Commissaries, primarily groceries BLS benchmark).

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

Harding's Friendly Market #397 TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Harding's Friendly Market #397 falls in its industry

30,654 Commissaries, primarily grocer establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 536 Commissaries, primarily grocer employers in Michigan.

Harding's Friendly Market #397 (38 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Harding's Friendly Market #397
Harding's Friendly Market #397 (38 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Harding's Friendly Market #397 has fewer employees than the Commissaries, primarily groceries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MI · Kalamazoo

30,654 Commissaries, primarily groceries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 353 employers in Kalamazoo, 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 10424 Tenaya 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chillicothe - Main Store 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAI-0034-0034-01770 FAC-01770-HOLMES-PA 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAI-0035-0035-01847 FAC-01847-ALEXANDRIA-VA 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Westview Orchards 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries, Inc - Webberville (Indoor) 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE McConnell & Scully, Inc. 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bronson Methodist Hospital 4,909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pfizer Kalamazoo - Portage Road 3,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Instruments 2,240 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-MIKAL1 2,103 FTE
NAT-TCR Preco, Inc. - MPS 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Diebold Nixdorf Hunt Valley MD 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR USCS, Turlock North 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cowin Equipment Company, Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lile Relocation- Vancouver Branch 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ruan Transport Corporation T-086 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ruan Transport Corporation T-231 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commerece City (GCR) 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.