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
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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).

F

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

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).

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

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 establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

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 (17 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Nitsches Sausage Company
Nitsches Sausage Company (17 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

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 →

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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.