Nursery stock growing · Michigan

Hortech Inc.

Nunica, MI · ~124 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hortech Inc. runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hortech Inc.: 6.7 TCR = 148% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hortech Inc. safety composite

Hortech Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Hortech Inc.: 6.0 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.35× in 2019

Hortech Inc.'s TCR rose 1.1 from 6.0 in 2017 to 7.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Nunica, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 148% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Mellano & Company db…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mellano & Company dba Mellano Enterprises SLR (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hortech Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hortech Inc. averages 6.7 TCR (148% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

Hortech Inc. TCR series: 2017=6 · 2018=7 · 2019=7.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Hortech Inc. falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Nursery stock growing employers in Michigan.

Hortech Inc. (124 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hortech Inc.
Hortech Inc. (124 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Hortech Inc. has more employees than the Nursery stock growing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2019 7.1 2.4 5 1 0
2018 7.0 1.2 5 1 0
2017 6.0 1.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · MI · Nunica

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 5 employers in Nunica, 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 Mellano & Company dba Mellano Enterprises SLR 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fernlea Nurseries- JUP 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belmont Nursery Inc 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR North American Plants, Inc 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Anderson Development Company 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE GM & Sons, Inc. 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE DC BYERS COMPANY 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Process Piping 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR L & K Coffee Co dba Magnum Coffee Roastery 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR R.A. Holmes Construction Inc. 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baker 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Precision Manufacturing Group Inc 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Lake Mary Health & Rehabilitation Center 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR KACI 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Joseph C. Hazel, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Construction 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avery Dennison Quakertown 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ken-Mac Metal - Cleveland 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grace Living Center-Jenks 124 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.