Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Hearty Fresh

Byron Center, MI · ~88 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hearty Fresh runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Hearty Fresh: 1.6 TCR = 75% of Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hearty Fresh safety composite

Hearty Fresh scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Hearty Fresh: 0.7 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Hearty Fresh's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.7 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Byron Center, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO Midwest Foods_Chicago
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midwest Foods_Chicago (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hearty Fresh in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hearty Fresh averages 1.6 TCR (75% of the Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Hearty Fresh TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2018=5.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=1.2 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Hearty Fresh falls in its industry

369 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholes establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

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 9 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholes employers in Michigan.

Hearty Fresh (88 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hearty Fresh
Hearty Fresh (88 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Hearty Fresh has more employees than the Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2024 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2021 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2020 2.9 2.9 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.9 2.5 7 0 0
2016 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · MI · Byron Center

369 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 78 employers in Byron 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 Midwest Foods_Chicago 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7175_18804 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Venida Packing Co. 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Antunez and Son Produce, Inc. 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fluresh Adrian 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water UEDCD 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCI Industries, Inc. 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE BIDIGARE CONTRACTORS, INC. 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buist Electric 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lumbermen's Inc. Byron Center 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Masterpiece Flower Company LLC 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Eerden Trucking 254 FTE
NAT-TCR Rough River Dam State Resort Park 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Davis-Ulmer Sprinkler Company Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SiVance LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SICPA Securink Corp. 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dade Broward Operations Center 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Wabash College 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Nixa Public Schools 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springfield Ma 88 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.