Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses · Michigan

Kowalski Companies, Inc.

Mi, MI · ~76 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kowalski Companies, Inc. runs at 224% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade F.

Kowalski Companies, Inc.: 7.4 TCR = 224% of Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kowalski Companies, Inc. safety composite

Kowalski Companies, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

−2.4

2018→2024

Kowalski Companies, Inc. injury rate improved

Kowalski Companies, Inc.'s TCR fell 2.4 from 6.3 in 2018 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 15.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.3 · 2019=6.8 · 2021=15.4 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Mi, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 224% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #13/17
  • PHOTO GC Foods
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GC Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kowalski Companies, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kowalski Companies, Inc. averages 7.4 TCR (224% of the Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Kowalski Companies, Inc. TCR series: 2018=6.3 · 2019=6.8 · 2021=15.4 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Kowalski Companies, Inc. falls in its industry

613 Cooked meats made from purchas establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 17 Cooked meats made from purchas employers in Michigan.

Kowalski Companies, Inc. (76 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kowalski Companies, Inc.
Kowalski Companies, Inc. (76 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Kowalski Companies, Inc. has fewer employees than the Cooked meats made from purchased carcass median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 3.9 3.9 3 0 0
2023 2.6 1.3 2 0 0
2022 9.3 9.3 7 0 0
2021 15.4 12.3 10 0 0
2019 6.8 2.3 6 0 0
2018 6.3 1.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · MI · Mi

613 Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 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 GC Foods 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prairie Smokehouse Partners LLC 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 2 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lawton Plant 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fluresh Grand Rapids 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Operation Grow, LLC 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Energy Developments 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benton Harbor Service Center 76 FTE
NAT-TCR K&M Tire Dallas 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR WonderWorks Panama City Beach 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tanglewood Arbor 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Indus Trade & Technology DBA Stone Mart 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE French Ellison - San Antonio 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Total Contracting Limited 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE VPS 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Transportation, Ltd 76 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, 2019, 2018. 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.