Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers · Michigan

Kent City

Kent City, MI · ~46 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kent City runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Kent City: 3.1 TCR = 143% of Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kent City safety composite

Kent City scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

Kent City: 0.0 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Kent City's TCR rose 5.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 5.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Kent City, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.1 · 143% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/19
  • PHOTO Tappahanock
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tappahanock (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kent City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kent City averages 3.1 TCR (143% of the Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Kent City TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=7.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Kent City falls in its industry

700 Farm and Garden Machinery and establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 19 Farm and Garden Machinery and employers in Michigan.

Kent City (46 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kent City
Kent City (46 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Kent City has more employees than the Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 5.4 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.2 5.4 2 2 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · MI · Kent City

700 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 4 employers in Kent City, 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 Tappahanock 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meade Tractor - Abingdon 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Albany OH 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frankfort 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fresh Solution Farms 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE DBA FALKNER FARMS 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROB MAINTENANCE 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE EDL Energy 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kent Power 255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Welch Tile Marble 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6959_15994 30 FTE
NAT-TCR Glanbia Gooding Transportation 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Peace Village 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 24-GRA 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Atomatic Mechanical Services, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tlc Pipeline Construction 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE David Santos Farming 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE LASAR Underground construction 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Church Hill 46 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.