Fruit and Vegetable Canning · Michigan

Indian Summer

Ludington, MI · ~221 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Indian Summer runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fruit and Vegetable Canning workplace, earning a grade C.

Indian Summer: 3.9 TCR = 119% of Fruit and Vegetable Canning BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Indian Summer safety composite

Indian Summer scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

−2.8

2016→2024

Indian Summer injury rate improved

Indian Summer's TCR fell 2.8 from 5.5 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.5 · 2017=3.6 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 119% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #21/41
  • PHOTO Walnut Creek Foods M…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~221 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Walnut Creek Foods Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Indian Summer in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Indian Summer averages 3.9 TCR (119% of the Fruit and Vegetable Canning BLS benchmark).

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

Indian Summer TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2017=3.6 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Indian Summer falls in its industry

330 Fruit and Vegetable Canning establishments

Safer than 52% 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 #21 safest of 41 Fruit and Vegetable Canning employers in Michigan.

Indian Summer (221 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 Indian Summer
Indian Summer (221 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Indian Summer has more employees than the Fruit and Vegetable Canning median and a lower 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 2.7 1.7 7 1 0
2017 3.6 3.6 9 0 0
2016 5.5 4.7 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · MI · Ludington

330 Fruit and Vegetable Canning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 55 employers in Ludington, 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 Walnut Creek Foods Manufacturing 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeside Foods Owatonna 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indiana Plant 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeside Foods, Inc. 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Prairie Farms Dairy 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE Witzenmann USA 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer 243 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2033 - Allen Park 221 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Ludington Hospital - SHLH 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2102 294 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ludington 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2102 274 FTE
NAT-TCR Dal-Tile 221 Charlotte 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hillhouse & Mulligan, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Masonicare Home Health & Hospice - Wallingford 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Blanton Supplies Inc 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE R. J. Corman Railroad Group, LLC 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE OH100 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avera Health Avera Mckennan Campus 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE Placid Refining Company LLC 221 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.