Table salt manufacturing · Michigan

Morton Salt - Manistee Plant

Manistee, MI · ~102 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Morton Salt - Manistee Plant runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Table salt manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Morton Salt - Manistee Plant: 1.3 TCR = 33% of Table salt manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Morton Salt - Manistee Plant safety composite

Morton Salt - Manistee Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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

Morton Salt - Manistee Plant: 0.9 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Morton Salt - Manistee Plant's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.9 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Manistee, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 33% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/13
  • PHOTO Excalibur Seasoning …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Excalibur Seasoning Company Ltd (0.0 TCR gap)

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Morton Salt - Manistee Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Morton Salt - Manistee Plant averages 1.3 TCR (33% of the Table salt manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Morton Salt - Manistee Plant TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=1.8 · BLS 4.1

Where Morton Salt - Manistee Plant falls in its industry

200 Table salt manufacturing establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 13 Table salt manufacturing employers in Michigan.

Morton Salt - Manistee Plant (102 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Morton Salt - Manistee Plant
Morton Salt - Manistee Plant (102 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Morton Salt - Manistee Plant has more employees than the Table salt manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2017 1.8 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.9 0.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · MI · Manistee

200 Table salt manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 21 employers in Manistee, 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 Excalibur Seasoning Company Ltd 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kalsec Distribution Center 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morton Salt Grantsville 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR R. L. Schreiber Inc. Lebanon KY 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Constantine, MI 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Grand Rapids-Water Administration 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE C&D Hughes, Inc. 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE CMF Group Inc Michigan 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oaks Correctional Facility 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manistee Hospital 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR 279 - Manistee MI 253 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meijer 279 242 FTE
NAT-TCR 49751p - Colorado Spings Dc 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cascades Tissue Group - Tennessee 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Naval Air Station Pensacola-NASP 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Baytown Warehouse ENA1 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE LKC 2nd Avenue 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE RCR Star Oregon, Inc. 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prince Minerals LLC- Leesburg 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cheyenne (Wyche) 102 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: 2017, 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.