Food coloring, natural, manufacturing · Michigan

Home Style Foods, INC.

Hamtramck, MI · ~48 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Home Style Foods, INC. runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food coloring, natural, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Home Style Foods, INC.: 8.0 TCR = 196% of Food coloring, natural, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Home Style Foods, INC. safety composite

Home Style Foods, INC. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

TCR Δ

−12.0

2017→2024

Home Style Foods, INC. injury rate improved

Home Style Foods, INC.'s TCR fell 12.0 from 19.0 in 2017 to 7.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 19.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=19.0 · 2018=15.2 · 2019=7.2 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=7.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Hamtramck, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 196% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #13/13
  • PHOTO Elite Spice, Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elite Spice, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Home Style Foods, INC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Home Style Foods, INC. averages 8.0 TCR (196% of the Food coloring, natural, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Home Style Foods, INC. TCR series: 2017=19 · 2018=15.2 · 2019=7.2 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=7 · BLS 4.1

Where Home Style Foods, INC. falls in its industry

200 Food coloring, natural, manufa establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 13 Food coloring, natural, manufa employers in Michigan.

Home Style Foods, INC. (48 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 Home Style Foods, INC.
Home Style Foods, INC. (48 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Home Style Foods, INC. has fewer employees than the Food coloring, natural, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 7.0 3.5 2 0 0
2023 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 7.2 4.3 5 0 0
2018 15.2 6.9 11 0 0
2017 19.0 13.1 12 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · MI · Hamtramck

200 Food coloring, natural, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 14 employers in Hamtramck, 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 Elite Spice, Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chesapeake Spice Co NV 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herb Pharm Williams/Central Point 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pyrites 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sietsema Farms 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.M. Longyear, LLC - Office & Forestry 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Packing Co 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Top Grade Aggregates, LLC 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mitchell- Hamtramck 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL-NA : American Delivery Services, Inc. 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's, a Villa Center: Colonial Nursing Center, LLC 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caniff Electric Supply - Hamtramck, MI 79 FTE
NAT-TCR Akron 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR RVI-Robards 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bingham and Taylor Corporation 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 3032 Keystone Sumner Wa 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dawn Food Products - Seattle Distribution 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross Downing Buick Gmc of Gonzales 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Human Services, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coastal Windows, Inc. 48 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.