Ambulance services, air or ground · Michigan

Life EMS Inc.-Newaygo

Fremont, MI · ~37 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Life EMS Inc.-Newaygo runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ambulance services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade C.

Life EMS Inc.-Newaygo: 3.8 TCR = 101% of Ambulance services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Life EMS Inc.-Newaygo safety composite

Life EMS Inc.-Newaygo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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.-Newaygo: 3.1 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2024

Life EMS Inc.-Newaygo's TCR rose 4.8 from 3.1 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 101% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #5/45
  • PHOTO Lake City
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lake City (0.0 TCR gap)

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Life EMS Inc.-Newaygo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Life EMS Inc.-Newaygo averages 3.8 TCR (101% 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.-Newaygo TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2018=5.8 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=7.9 · BLS 3.8

Where Life EMS Inc.-Newaygo falls in its industry

976 Ambulance services, air or gro establishments

Safer than 79% 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 #5 safest of 45 Ambulance services, air or gro employers in Michigan.

Life EMS Inc.-Newaygo (37 employees, TCR 3.8) 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.-Newaygo
Life EMS Inc.-Newaygo (37 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Life EMS Inc.-Newaygo 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 7.9 5.3 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.2 6.2 2 0 0
2018 5.8 5.8 2 0 0
2016 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · MI · Fremont

976 Ambulance services, air or ground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 19 employers in Fremont, 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 Lake City 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Illini Ambulance 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunnyvale Station 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bleckley 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Full Circle Dairy 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dakota Plains Dairy 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE East River Genetic Services LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iron Mountain Hydro 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gerber Products - Fremont Plant 581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle Gerber Products Company 496 FTE
CITY-NEAR SPECTRUM HEALTH GERBER 480 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1791 291 FTE
NAT-TCR Owens & Minor Dallas 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pointe Precision, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lima Engine 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wiese Wichita 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE XCJ 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Builders 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comfort Mfg 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE DOL009 37 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.