Grain, breakfast cereal, manufacturing · Michigan

Hearthside Food Solutions H5

Name: Hearthside Food Solutions H5 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Kentwood, MI · ~346 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Hearthside Food Solutions H5 runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Grain, breakfast cereal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Hearthside Food Solutions H5: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Grain, breakfast cereal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hearthside Food Solutions H5 safety composite

Hearthside Food Solutions H5 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers
DART rate: A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 52% 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 H5 held a steady TCR band

Hearthside Food Solutions H5's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.8 in 2020 to 0.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.8 · 2021=1.2 · 2022=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311230 · Kentwood, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #2/5
PHOTO Taylor
BOOK 3y book
INJ 14 inj
SIZE ~346 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Taylor (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hearthside Foo

1.1
CC 300590 CEDA

1.1
General Mills

1.1
This site

0.9
Taylor

0.9

What this shows Hearthside Food Solutions H5 averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Grain, breakfast cereal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Hearthside Food Solutions H5 TCR series: 2020=0.8 · 2021=1.2 · 2022=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Hearthside Food Solutions H5 falls in its industry

60 Grain, breakfast cereal, manuf establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Grain, breakfast cereal, manuf employers in Michigan.

Hearthside Food Solutions H5 (346 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Hearthside Food Solutions H5 has more employees than the Grain, breakfast cereal, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2022	0.9	0.0	4
2021	1.2	0.2	6
2020	0.8	0.4	4

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311230 · MI · Kentwood

60 Grain, breakfast cereal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 122 employers in Kentwood, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Taylor	LOUISVILLE, CO	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H4	KENTWOOD, MI	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CC 300590 CEDAR RAPIDS PLT	CEDAR RAPIDS, IA	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	General Mills (Cincinnati)	CINCINNATI, OH	1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Summit Polymers Inc. Plant 8	VICKSBURG	346 FTE
STATE-SIZE	8373_19059	HUDSONVILLE	346 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Auburn Hills Tech Center	AUBURN HILLS	346 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Duro-Last Roofing (MI)	SAGINAW	346 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ventra Grand Rapids Plant 5	Kentwood	1,274 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1	Kentwood	656 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Trees LLC 484	Kentwood	346 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Autocam Corporation	Kentwood	332 FTE
NAT-TCR	Northern States Metals Company	Youngstown, OH	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Courtyard by Marriott University of Dayton	Dayton, OH	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Piedmont Regional Jail Authority	Farmville, VA	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Keller Engineers, Inc.	Hollidaysburg, PA	0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Hyundai Power Transformers USA	Montgomery, AL	346 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Alcom LLC	Winslow, ME	346 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Indianapolis IN Frozen Pies (Bakery)	Indianapolis, IN	346 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Queens-SI Management	Jamaica, NY	346 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, 2020. 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.