Starch glues manufacturing · Michigan

H.B. Fuller

Michigan Center, MI · ~331 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

H.B. Fuller runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Starch glues manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

H.B. Fuller: 2.5 TCR = 77% of Starch glues manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

H.B. Fuller safety composite

H.B. Fuller scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

H.B. Fuller: 2.3 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2022

H.B. Fuller's TCR rose 0.6 from 2.3 in 2021 to 2.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Michigan Center, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 77% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #8/24
  • PHOTO Mapei West Chicago
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~331 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mapei West Chicago (0.0 TCR gap)

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H.B. Fuller in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows H.B. Fuller averages 2.5 TCR (77% of the Starch glues manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

H.B. Fuller TCR series: 2021=2.3 · 2022=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where H.B. Fuller falls in its industry

287 Starch glues manufacturing establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

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 24 Starch glues manufacturing employers in Michigan.

H.B. Fuller (331 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate H.B. Fuller
H.B. Fuller (331 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

H.B. Fuller has more employees than the Starch glues manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2022 2.8 2.8 10 0 0
2021 2.3 2.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · MI · Michigan Center

287 Starch glues manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 4 employers in Michigan Center, 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 Mapei West Chicago 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hartford City 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seneca 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tailored Chemical Products, Inc. - Plant 2 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kalamazoo MI (Mill) 331 FTE
STATE-SIZE HI-LEX Battle Creek (HIA) 331 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2010 331 FTE
STATE-SIZE MyMichigan Medical Center West Branch 331 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michigan Center 294 FTE
CITY-NEAR Royal - Michigan Center 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR KUSTOM US - 99-32 26 FTE
NAT-TCR BEI 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Vestar Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tate and Lyle Custom Ingredients 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Scottdale 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZNEW 331 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0218 - Sterling Va Whse 331 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0734 - Nampa Id Whse 331 FTE
NAT-SIZE VNACHC Guilford 331 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: 2022, 2021. 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.