Ambulance services, air or ground · Michigan

Life EMS Inc.-Ionia

Ionia, MI · ~32 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Life EMS Inc.-Ionia runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ambulance services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade D.

Life EMS Inc.-Ionia: 7.3 TCR = 193% of Ambulance services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Life EMS Inc.-Ionia safety composite

Life EMS Inc.-Ionia scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 7.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

Life EMS Inc.-Ionia: 3.1 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2024

Life EMS Inc.-Ionia's TCR rose 3.1 from 3.1 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Ionia, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.3 · 193% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #22/45
  • PHOTO LifeLine Ambulance
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LifeLine Ambulance (0.0 TCR gap)

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Life EMS Inc.-Ionia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Life EMS Inc.-Ionia averages 7.3 TCR (193% of the Ambulance services, air or ground BLS benchmark).

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

Life EMS Inc.-Ionia TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2018=3.1 · 2021=14.2 · 2022=14.4 · 2023=3 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 3.8

Where Life EMS Inc.-Ionia falls in its industry

976 Ambulance services, air or gro establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 45 Ambulance services, air or gro employers in Michigan.

Life EMS Inc.-Ionia (32 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Life EMS Inc.-Ionia
Life EMS Inc.-Ionia (32 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Life EMS Inc.-Ionia has fewer employees than the Ambulance services, air or ground median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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 6.1 6.1 2 0 0
2023 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2022 14.4 14.4 5 0 0
2021 14.2 14.2 5 0 0
2018 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2016 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · MI · Ionia

976 Ambulance services, air or ground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 26 employers in Ionia, 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 LifeLine Ambulance 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Platinum Nine Holdings, LLC dba Northwest Ambulance 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Air-Ground Ambulance Service of Ohio 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dayton Operations 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6801_15743 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Soil Dairy 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berrybrook 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Tawas 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ventra Ionia 1,383 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michigan Reformatory Correctional Facility 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility 301 FTE
NAT-TCR RLE 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Las Vegas Marriott 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Corner Market #6065 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Carpet Weaver's Commercial, Inc. 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kentucky - Metals 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Bailey Boys, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation Honolulu HI - Lagoon Dr (2829) 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE XMC 32 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, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.