Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Jack Brown Produce, Inc.

Sparta, MI · ~100 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jack Brown Produce, Inc. runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Jack Brown Produce, Inc.: 1.3 TCR = 58% of Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jack Brown Produce, Inc. safety composite

Jack Brown Produce, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

Jack Brown Produce, Inc.: 0.0 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

Jack Brown Produce, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Sparta, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.3 · 58% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #1/9
  • PHOTO MJB Sales Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MJB Sales Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jack Brown Produce, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jack Brown Produce, Inc. averages 1.3 TCR (58% of the Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Jack Brown Produce, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2019=3.2 · 2023=1 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Jack Brown Produce, Inc. falls in its industry

369 Produce, fresh, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 93% 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 #1 safest of 9 Produce, fresh, merchant whole employers in Michigan.

Jack Brown Produce, Inc. (100 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 Jack Brown Produce, Inc.
Jack Brown Produce, Inc. (100 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Jack Brown Produce, Inc. has more employees than the Produce, 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2019 3.2 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · MI · Sparta

369 Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 33 employers in Sparta, 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 MJB Sales Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Potato King, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Foods 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Papania's 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jay Dee Contractors, Inc. 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Solomon Plumbing Co 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE FiberClass Insulation 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eden Foods Headquarters 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Agrico Labor LLC 559 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Formulations 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal-Mogul Powertrain 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Lakes Division 149 FTE
NAT-TCR Steely Lumber Co. Inc 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR West Fraser Inc 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Carrier Commercial Services (Tampa) 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Grand Junction 2828 Walker Fld Dr 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Morgan Truck Body LLC MPD 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE TPA-GH 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belleville Healthcare Center 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spartech Corporation 100 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, 2019, 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.