Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants · Michigan

JBS Plainwell INC

Plainwell, MI · ~1,307 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

JBS Plainwell INC runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade D.

JBS Plainwell INC: 5.3 TCR = 159% of Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

JBS Plainwell INC safety composite

JBS Plainwell INC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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

−3.1

2016→2024

JBS Plainwell INC injury rate improved

JBS Plainwell INC's TCR fell 3.1 from 7.2 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.2 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=5.0 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Plainwell, MI ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 159% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Sioux Center Harvest…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 242 inj
  • SIZE ~1,307 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sioux Center Harvest Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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JBS Plainwell INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows JBS Plainwell INC averages 5.3 TCR (159% of the Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

JBS Plainwell INC TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=5 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where JBS Plainwell INC falls in its industry

212 Animal fats (except poultry an establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #3 safest of 6 Animal fats (except poultry an employers in Michigan.

JBS Plainwell INC (1,307 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate JBS Plainwell INC
JBS Plainwell INC (1,307 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

JBS Plainwell INC has more employees than the Animal fats (except poultry and small ga 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 4.1 2.3 41 22 0
2023 5.0 2.9 53 25 0
2022 4.4 2.8 37 31 0
2021 5.7 4.7 47 28 0
2016 7.2 4.8 64 34 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · MI · Plainwell

212 Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 43 employers in Plainwell, 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 Sioux Center Harvest Plant 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Primary Beef-Fresno CA 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smithfield Denison 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nicholas Meats 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE BASF Wyandotte 1,313 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1447 N. Harrison St. 1,313 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2250-7 1,315 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmington Central High School 1,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2061 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2061 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR 191 - Plainwell 249 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meijer Inc 191 249 FTE
NAT-TCR Algoo - Goodwater Center 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tropicana Atlantic City 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Zero Motorcycles inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Barracuda Mechanical Insulation Llc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marymount Hospital 1,307 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation US VA Manassas Godwin Dr (1030) 1,307 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baptist Health System Jacksonville Wolfson Children's Hospital 1,308 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0559 - Indianapolis IN DC 1,308 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, 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.