Breakfast cereals manufacturing · Michigan

Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1

Kentwood, MI · ~656 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1 runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Breakfast cereals manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1: 0.5 TCR = 16% of Breakfast cereals manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1 safety composite

Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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, LLC - H1 held a steady TCR band

Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.5 in 2020 to 0.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 0.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.5 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=0.4 · 2023=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 16% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO CC 300625 DANVILLE PLT
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~656 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CC 300625 DANVILLE PLT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1 averages 0.5 TCR (16% of the Breakfast cereals manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1 TCR series: 2020=0.5 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=0.4 · 2023=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1 falls in its industry

60 Breakfast cereals manufacturin establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

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 Breakfast cereals manufacturin employers in Michigan.

Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1 (656 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1
Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1 (656 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H1 has more employees than the Breakfast cereals 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2023 0.5 0.1 4 0 0
2022 0.4 0.1 3 0 0
2021 0.7 0.1 6 0 0
2020 0.5 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311230 · MI · Kentwood

60 Breakfast cereals 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR CC 300625 DANVILLE PLT 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeville Technical Center 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Ansgar Mill 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sensory Effects Cereal Systems 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flint Engine Operation 656 FTE
STATE-SIZE Byrne Electrical Specialists 655 FTE
STATE-SIZE chassix - Montague 657 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frenchtown 658 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ventra Grand Rapids Plant 5 1,274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Food Solutions H5 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trees LLC 484 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR Autocam Corporation 332 FTE
NAT-TCR StoneGate Senior Living, LP 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 91 - Archer Western Contractors, LLC 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wisconsin Vision, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mt Pleasant TX 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE SH Woodridge 656 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pilgrims 656 FTE
NAT-SIZE TX - Houston - 2400 Holly Hall - The American Bottling Company 656 FTE
NAT-SIZE 237482-Washington Ndc 656 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, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.