Grocery stores · Michigan

Hardings Markets 908

Buchanan, MI · ~47 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hardings Markets 908 runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Hardings Markets 908: 3.4 TCR = 99% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hardings Markets 908 safety composite

Hardings Markets 908 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hardings Markets 908: 3.5 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Hardings Markets 908's TCR rose 3.1 from 3.5 in 2017 to 6.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 99% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #191/536
  • PHOTO SWY-0027-0027-01090 …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SWY-0027-0027-01090 FAC-01090-KODIAK-AK (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hardings Markets 908 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hardings Markets 908 averages 3.4 TCR (99% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Hardings Markets 908 TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=6.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Hardings Markets 908 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 71% 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 #191 safest of 536 Grocery stores employers in Michigan.

Hardings Markets 908 (47 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Hardings Markets 908
Hardings Markets 908 (47 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Hardings Markets 908 has fewer employees than the Grocery stores 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 6.6 0.0 2 0 0
2020 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.4 0.0 1 0 0
2017 3.5 3.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MI · Buchanan

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 16 employers in Buchanan, 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 SWY-0027-0027-01090 FAC-01090-KODIAK-AK 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 5769 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 5925 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 660-00067 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Oakland Enterprises LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE OPEN ROAD LOGISTICS LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOUNT ELLIOTT_1373985 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE ESCANABA_1362718 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fapco inc 228 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1467 RXO EXPRESS, LLC-1467 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buchanan 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buchanan High School 64 FTE
NAT-TCR UFP Mid-Atlantic, LLC Plant 302 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Berryfield Bottling, LLC 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Terex - Fort Wayne 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 135 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Reynolds Learning Acadamy 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pallet Consultants 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bettendorf Library 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Halifax County Adult Detention Center 47 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.