Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses · Michigan
Nitsches Sausage Company
Roseville, MI · ~17 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 6.3
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Nitsches Sausage Company runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade D.
Nitsches Sausage Company: 6.3 TCR = 191% of Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Nitsches Sausage Company safety composite
Nitsches Sausage Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).
27/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 6.29 per 100 workers
Safer than 30% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 9.97 per 100 workers
Safer than 7% 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
Nitsches Sausage Company: 7.9 → 29.9 TCR
Peak year 2024 @ 29.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.59× in 2024
Nitsches Sausage Company's TCR rose 22.0 from 7.9 in 2018 to 29.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 311612 · Roseville, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL
Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 191% of ind
- DART 10.0 DART
- RANK #12/17
- PHOTO Thrushwood Farms
- BOOK 6y book
- INJ 4 inj
- SIZE ~17 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Thrushwood Farms (0.0 TCR gap)
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Nitsches Sausage Company in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Nitsches Sausage Company
6.3 TCR
- Thrushwood Far
Thrushwood Farms
6.3 TCR
- Stock Yards Fl
Stock Yards Florida
6.3 TCR
- Buckhead Meat
Buckhead Meat of Minnesota
6.3 TCR
- Lebanon Meat P
Lebanon Meat Plant
6.3 TCR
What this shows Nitsches Sausage Company averages 6.3 TCR (191% of the Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).
Nitsches Sausage Company TCR series: 2018=7.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=29.9 · BLS 3.3
Where Nitsches Sausage Company falls in its industry
613 Meats, fresh or chilled (exce establishmentsSafer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.
Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 17 Meats, fresh or chilled (exce employers in Michigan.
Nitsches Sausage Company has fewer employees than the Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 | 29.9 | 10.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
311612 · MI · Roseville
613 Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 82 employers in Roseville, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.
| Rel | Establishment | Metric |
|---|---|---|
| NAICS-TCR | Thrushwood Farms | 6.3 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Stock Yards Florida | 6.3 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Buckhead Meat of Minnesota | 6.3 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Lebanon Meat Plant | 6.3 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | KBIC-Marquette | 17 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Christman Facility Solutions LLC Grand Rapids | 17 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Hydaker-Wheatlake Grand Rapids | 17 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Nagel Construction | 17 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | 4003 - TPG/PBM | 666 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | 4002 - TPG/PBS (inc 4009) | 565 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | WM 2959 | 446 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | RCO Engineering, Inc. | 417 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Petco Dpc | 6.3 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | North County - Vista | 6.3 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Quality Naturally Foods, Inc. | 6.3 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Viking Ready Mix/Hanford | 6.3 TCR |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
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