Vinegar manufacturing · Michigan

Mizkan America Inc. Belding MI

Belding, MI · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mizkan America Inc. Belding MI runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Vinegar manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Mizkan America Inc. Belding MI: 3.8 TCR = 92% of Vinegar manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mizkan America Inc. Belding MI safety composite

Mizkan America Inc. Belding MI scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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)
D 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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

Mizkan America Inc. Belding MI: 0.0 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Mizkan America Inc. Belding MI's TCR rose 7.6 from 0.0 in 2018 to 7.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311941 · Belding, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 92% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Heritage Family Spec…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heritage Family Specialty Foods, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mizkan America Inc. Belding MI in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mizkan America Inc. Belding MI averages 3.8 TCR (92% of the Vinegar manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Mizkan America Inc. Belding MI TCR series: 2018=0 · 2021=7.6 · BLS 4.1

Where Mizkan America Inc. Belding MI falls in its industry

134 Vinegar manufacturing establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Vinegar manufacturing employers in Michigan.

Mizkan America Inc. Belding MI (23 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Mizkan America Inc. Belding MI
Mizkan America Inc. Belding MI (23 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Mizkan America Inc. Belding MI has fewer employees than the Vinegar manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2021 7.6 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · MI · Belding

134 Vinegar manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 15 employers in Belding, 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 Heritage Family Specialty Foods, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OTAFUKU FOODS, INC 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Foods International USA Inc Bernhardt 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ken's Foods 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - MIS 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Casey Woodwyk, Inc. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Schuring, Jr. Company 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atwood Timber and Lumber 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Extruded Aluminum Company, LLC 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Point of Belding 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR Granco Clark Inc 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Belding Fruit Storage, Inc. 72 FTE
NAT-TCR Pinnacle Electric Inc 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR York Ford 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dsg Yankee 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TJ Maxx Evansville DC 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avalanche Air Inc 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rob Stubbins Electrical 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE HeritageDistilling Flagship 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE NPCC 23 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: 2021, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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