Chocolate (coating, instant, liquor, syrups) made from purchased chocolate · Michigan

Kilwin's Quality Confections

Petoskey, MI · ~102 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kilwin's Quality Confections runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chocolate (coating, instant, liquor, syrups) made from purchased chocolate workplace, earning a grade D.

Kilwin's Quality Confections: 5.6 TCR = 134% of Chocolate (coating, instant, liquor, syrups) made from purchased chocolate BLS 4.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kilwin's Quality Confections safety composite

Kilwin's Quality Confections scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Kilwin's Quality Confections: 1.7 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2024

Kilwin's Quality Confections's TCR rose 7.4 from 1.7 in 2021 to 9.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311352 · Petoskey, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 134% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK P22
  • PHOTO Leclerc Foods USA
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Leclerc Foods USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kilwin's Quality Confections in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kilwin's Quality Confections averages 5.6 TCR (134% of the Chocolate (coating, instant, liquor, syrups) made from purchased chocolate BLS benchmark).

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

Kilwin's Quality Confections TCR series: 2021=1.7 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 4.2

Where Kilwin's Quality Confections falls in its industry

86 Chocolate (coating, instant, l establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kilwin's Quality Confections (102 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kilwin's Quality Confections
Kilwin's Quality Confections (102 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Kilwin's Quality Confections has fewer employees than the Chocolate (coating, instant, liquor, syr median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 9.1 5.8 11 0 0
2023 7.4 5.5 8 0 0
2022 4.3 4.3 3 1 0
2021 1.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311352 · MI · Petoskey

86 Chocolate (coating, instant, liquor, syrups) made from purchased chocolate employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 50 employers in Petoskey, 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 Leclerc Foods USA 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashers Chocolate Co. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chase Candy Co 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edward Marc Chocolatier LLC 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Constantine, MI 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Grand Rapids-Water Administration 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE C&D Hughes, Inc. 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE CMF Group Inc Michigan 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR McLaren Northern Michigan 1,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital 1,155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Odawa Casino 509 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Staffing Services Corp. 483 FTE
NAT-TCR Bensenville 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Burford Farming Company Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Southside Regional Medical Center 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Feed Energy SC 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE TotalEnergies Petrochemicals and Refining USA Inc-Carville PS 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Connection of Ohio 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Teichert Construction Monterey 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bedford CountySchools Bedford County School Food Svcs 102 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.