Canned nuts manufacturing · Michigan

Kar's Nut Products

Madison Heights, MI · ~239 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kar's Nut Products runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Canned nuts manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Kar's Nut Products: 3.7 TCR = 91% of Canned nuts manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kar's Nut Products safety composite

Kar's Nut Products scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

−3.4

2022→2024

Kar's Nut Products injury rate improved

Kar's Nut Products's TCR fell 3.4 from 5.4 in 2022 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.4 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311911 · Madison Heights, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 91% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO Lubbock Industrial
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~239 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lubbock Industrial (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kar's Nut Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kar's Nut Products averages 3.7 TCR (91% of the Canned nuts manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kar's Nut Products TCR series: 2022=5.4 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=2 · BLS 4.1

Where Kar's Nut Products falls in its industry

150 Canned nuts manufacturing establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 11 Canned nuts manufacturing employers in Michigan.

Kar's Nut Products (239 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kar's Nut Products
Kar's Nut Products (239 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Kar's Nut Products has more employees than the Canned nuts manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 2.0 1.0 6 0 0
2023 3.8 1.1 9 1 0
2022 5.4 3.0 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311911 · MI · Madison Heights

150 Canned nuts manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 107 employers in Madison Heights, 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 Lubbock Industrial 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 046-PL001 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Dorado Almonds, LLC 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Nut Co., Inc. 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Universal Contracting Services 239 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tower Automotive Clinton Township 239 FTE
STATE-SIZE ZF-Fenton 239 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metal Flow Corporation 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR MADISON HEIGHTS (MIMAD) 774 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIMAD - MADISON HEIGHTS 749 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-MIDET183 668 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIDET183 ASCENSION MACOMB-OAKLAND HOSP - MADISON HEIGHTS 509 FTE
NAT-TCR CalmaxTechnology02 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Warwick Publishing Company 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 90008150 South Coast Rail C7/ Skanska-D.W. White Joint Venture 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of Columbia 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Anchorage Middletown Fire & EMS 239 FTE
NAT-SIZE Savannah Machinery Workshop (SMW) 239 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Red Cross - 209 Farmington Ave 239 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amcor Flexibles Shelbyville-Liquids 239 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.