Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing · Michigan

Knouse Foods Pap Paw

Name: Knouse Foods Pap Paw Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Paw Paw, MI · ~65 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Knouse Foods Pap Paw runs at 282% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Knouse Foods Pap Paw: 9.3 TCR = 282% of Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knouse Foods Pap Paw safety composite

Knouse Foods Pap Paw scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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).

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 9.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

−4.0

2020→2021

Knouse Foods Pap Paw injury rate improved

Knouse Foods Pap Paw's TCR fell 4.0 from 11.3 in 2020 to 7.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=11.3 · 2021=7.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Paw Paw, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 282% of ind

DART 5.9 DART
RANK #38/41
PHOTO Natural Country Farms
BOOK 2y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Natural Country Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Knouse Foods Pap Paw averages 9.3 TCR (282% of the Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Knouse Foods Pap Paw TCR series: 2020=11.3 · 2021=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Knouse Foods Pap Paw falls in its industry

330 Beverages, fruit and vegetable establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 41 Beverages, fruit and vegetable employers in Michigan.

Knouse Foods Pap Paw (65 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Knouse Foods Pap Paw has fewer employees than the Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2021	7.3	5.9	4	1	0
2020	11.3	3.2	2	5	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · MI · Paw Paw

330 Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 17 employers in Paw Paw, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Natural Country Farms	ELLINGTON, CT	9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Los Gatos Tomato Products LLC	HURON, CA	9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Orange	ORANGE, CA	9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Long Lake Culinary Campus	TRAVERSE CITY, MI	9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Ridgeview Orchards	CONKLIN	65 FTE
STATE-SIZE	PG Manufacturing	LANSING	65 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Marquette Board of Light and Power	MARQUETTE	65 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SunGlo	NOVI	65 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Refresco Beverages Paw Paw	Paw Paw	390 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CCNA-Paw Paw	Paw Paw	379 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bronson LakeView Hospital	Paw Paw	353 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 4439	Paw Paw	257 FTE
NAT-TCR	Vegetation Management West, LP	Hotchkiss, CO	9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Drury Inn & Suites - Kansas City Independence	Blue Springs, MO	9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Serta Simmons Bedding Windsor Locks	Windsor Locks, CT	9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Franklin Street Bakery	Minneapolis, MN	9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Robin Hill Farm	Deering, NH	65 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Valley Produce Harvesting, Inc.	Pauma Valley, CA	65 FTE
NAT-SIZE	60 West Street	Bethel, CT	65 FTE
NAT-SIZE	111920-Crestview Po	Crestview, FL	65 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: 2021, 2020. 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.