Ambulance services, air or ground · Michigan

Life EMS Inc.

Grand Rapids, MI · ~611 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Life EMS Inc. runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade F.

Life EMS Inc.: 8.6 TCR = 226% of Ambulance services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Life EMS Inc. safety composite

Life EMS Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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.: 8.1 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2023

Life EMS Inc.'s TCR rose 1.0 from 8.1 in 2016 to 9.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Grand Rapids, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 226% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #25/45
  • PHOTO Clarkston
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 208 inj
  • SIZE ~611 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clarkston (0.0 TCR gap)

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Life EMS Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Life EMS Inc. averages 8.6 TCR (226% 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. TCR series: 2016=8.1 · 2018=9.3 · 2021=8.7 · 2022=7.9 · 2023=9.1 · BLS 3.8

Where Life EMS Inc. falls in its industry

976 Ambulance services, air or gro establishments

Safer than 47% 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 #25 safest of 45 Ambulance services, air or gro employers in Michigan.

Life EMS Inc. (611 employees, TCR 8.6) 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Life EMS Inc.
Life EMS Inc. (611 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Life EMS Inc. has more employees than the Ambulance services, air or ground median and a higher 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
2023 9.1 8.9 51 1 0
2022 7.9 7.7 40 2 0
2021 8.7 8.2 44 2 0
2018 9.3 6.7 40 4 0
2016 8.1 6.3 33 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · MI · Grand Rapids

976 Ambulance services, air or ground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 1,006 employers in Grand Rapids, 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 Clarkston 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Josephine County Operations 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sacramento County Operations 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jan-Care Clarksburg Station 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Knape and Vogt Oak 610 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aerospace : Kalamazoo 612 FTE
STATE-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : DTW - Detroit 610 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unifi Aviation Services : DTW - Detroit 612 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA 9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Butterworth Hospital 7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR Saticoy Base - Bld: 0295 - 15 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR John Mourier Construction, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Westchester Gardens health and Rehabilitation 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR EMS - Reilly Crossing Sr Lvg 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fremont Hotel Casino 611 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pulaski Plant 611 FTE
NAT-SIZE 182413-Des Moines Ndc 611 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clinton County Chapter NYSARC 611 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2016. 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.