Grocery stores · Michigan

Harding's Friendly Market #421

Richland, MI · ~57 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Harding's Friendly Market #421 runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Harding's Friendly Market #421: 4.7 TCR = 139% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Harding's Friendly Market #421 safety composite

Harding's Friendly Market #421 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Harding's Friendly Market #421: 2.6 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2021

Harding's Friendly Market #421's TCR rose 5.5 from 2.6 in 2017 to 8.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Richland, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 139% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #323/536
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 001
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 001 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Harding's Friendly Market #421 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Harding's Friendly Market #421 averages 4.7 TCR (139% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Harding's Friendly Market #421 TCR series: 2017=2.6 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=8.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Harding's Friendly Market #421 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 49% 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 #323 safest of 536 Grocery stores employers in Michigan.

Harding's Friendly Market #421 (57 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 #421
Harding's Friendly Market #421 (57 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Harding's Friendly Market #421 has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher 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 8.1 2.7 3 0 0
2020 5.2 0.0 2 0 0
2019 5.1 0.0 2 0 0
2018 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.6 2.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MI · Richland

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 10 employers in Richland, 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 The Fresh Market 001 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Fresh Market 218 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Middletown Karns Food Store 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lowes Foods #259 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bloomingdale MI Facility 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville SC 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dickinson Homes 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concraft Inc 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richland 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Motion Systems : Richland 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zoetis Kalamazoo - Richland 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR MI 11921 E. M89 60 FTE
NAT-TCR Fairmont, The 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Key, LLC 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Scott Electric 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sudbury Farms - Sudbury 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lile Relocation - Kent Branch 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wellness and Fitnes-Gloucester 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grocery Outlet 7712 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chandler 57 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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