Canning fruits and vegetables · Michigan

Honee Bear Canning

Lawton, MI · ~103 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Honee Bear Canning runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Canning fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade D.

Honee Bear Canning: 4.3 TCR = 130% of Canning fruits and vegetables BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Honee Bear Canning safety composite

Honee Bear Canning scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Honee Bear Canning: 1.6 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

Honee Bear Canning's TCR rose 3.4 from 1.6 in 2020 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Lawton, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #23/41
  • PHOTO Bowman Andros LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bowman Andros LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Honee Bear Canning in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Honee Bear Canning averages 4.3 TCR (130% of the Canning fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

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

Honee Bear Canning TCR series: 2020=1.6 · 2021=5.9 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Honee Bear Canning falls in its industry

330 Canning fruits and vegetables establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 41 Canning fruits and vegetables employers in Michigan.

Honee Bear Canning (103 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Honee Bear Canning
Honee Bear Canning (103 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Honee Bear Canning has fewer employees than the Canning fruits and vegetables median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 5.0 3.4 6 0 0
2023 1.8 0.9 2 0 0
2022 7.2 5.4 8 0 0
2021 5.9 4.2 7 0 0
2020 1.6 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · MI · Lawton

330 Canning fruits and vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 4 employers in Lawton, 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 Bowman Andros LLC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MSI Express - Rosendale 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Liberty Packing Company 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oliverio Italian Style Peppers, Inc. 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE MKG Norton Shores SC 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkels & McCoy - Canton, MI - Verizon 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE VanLaan Concrete Construction 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bumler Mechanical 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Welch's Food Inc. Lawton 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Welch Foods Inc. Lawton 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR welchs 76 FTE
NAT-TCR Feintool Cincinnati Inc. Creek Rd. Manufacturing 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Newark 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR NHC HealthCare Greenville 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Turner Exhibits, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alexandra Dates Inc 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Headquarters 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Behavioral Nursing Services 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shryne Group - Greenfield Organix 103 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. 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.