Potting soil manufacturing · Michigan

Michigan Peat - Retail Plant

Sandusky, MI · ~14 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Michigan Peat - Retail Plant runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Potting soil manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Michigan Peat - Retail Plant: 2.5 TCR = 75% of Potting soil manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Michigan Peat - Retail Plant safety composite

Michigan Peat - Retail Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−4.9

2022→2023

Michigan Peat - Retail Plant injury rate improved

Michigan Peat - Retail Plant's TCR fell 4.9 from 4.9 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.9 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · Sandusky, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO GFW
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~14 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GFW (0.0 TCR gap)

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Michigan Peat - Retail Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Michigan Peat - Retail Plant averages 2.5 TCR (75% of the Potting soil manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Michigan Peat - Retail Plant TCR series: 2022=4.9 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Michigan Peat - Retail Plant falls in its industry

163 Potting soil manufacturing establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Potting soil manufacturing employers in Michigan.

Michigan Peat - Retail Plant (14 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Michigan Peat - Retail Plant
Michigan Peat - Retail Plant (14 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Michigan Peat - Retail Plant has fewer employees than the Potting soil manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.9 4.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · MI · Sandusky

163 Potting soil manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 22 employers in Sandusky, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR GFW 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Verdesian Life Sciences 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Scotts Company - Oxford 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Everris NA - N. Charleston 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lansing 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4717_10746 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hercules Concrete - GO 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heat Treat 14 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vibracoustic 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR McKenzie Health System 247 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3632 237 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASCO Numatics, LP 222 FTE
NAT-TCR Industrial Air Centers, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ATL-HRP-ATLANTA 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR REG Grays Harbor, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Duro-Last Roofing (MA) 2.5 TCR

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. 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.