Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing · Michigan

Hearthside Food Solutions - H2

Grand Rapids, MI · ~225 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hearthside Food Solutions - H2 runs at 17% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Hearthside Food Solutions - H2: 0.7 TCR = 17% of Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hearthside Food Solutions - H2 safety composite

Hearthside Food Solutions - H2 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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

84/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% 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%).

Hearthside Food Solutions - H2 held a steady TCR band

Hearthside Food Solutions - H2's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.6 in 2022 to 0.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.6 · 2023=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Grand Rapids, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 17% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Hersheys Salty Snacks
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~225 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hersheys Salty Snacks (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hearthside Food Solutions - H2 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hearthside Food Solutions - H2 averages 0.7 TCR (17% of the Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hearthside Food Solutions - H2 TCR series: 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.8 · BLS 4.1

Where Hearthside Food Solutions - H2 falls in its industry

253 Pretzels (except soft) manufac establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Pretzels (except soft) manufac employers in Michigan.

Hearthside Food Solutions - H2 (225 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hearthside Food Solutions - H2
Hearthside Food Solutions - H2 (225 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Hearthside Food Solutions - H2 has more employees than the Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2023 0.8 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.6 0.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · MI · Grand Rapids

253 Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 1,006 employers in Grand Rapids, 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 Hersheys Salty Snacks 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BARCEL USA LLC 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Campbell's Snacks, Indianapolis 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackson Manufacturing Facility 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kalamazoo Mfg 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Industries, Inc. 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Skyway Precision, Inc. 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE LGENSOL (Hazel Park) 225 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA 9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Butterworth Hospital 7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR GMP Plating Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fluid Connectors : Mansfield 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Convoy Dairy LLC 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Molex Tooilng Group 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elite Flooring and Design Inc 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reyes Group Ltd. 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE City National Arena 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reading Facility 225 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: 2023, 2022. 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.