Trucking, general freight, local · Michigan

Northern Dry Bulk

Clare, MI · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Dry Bulk runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Trucking, general freight, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Northern Dry Bulk: 9.1 TCR = 203% of Trucking, general freight, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Dry Bulk safety composite

Northern Dry Bulk scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Northern Dry Bulk: 5.4 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.4× in 2023

Northern Dry Bulk's TCR rose 7.4 from 5.4 in 2020 to 12.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Clare, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 203% of ind

  • DART 12.8 DART
  • RANK #98/103
  • PHOTO AURORA (ILOSW)
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AURORA (ILOSW) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northern Dry Bulk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Dry Bulk averages 9.1 TCR (203% of the Trucking, general freight, local BLS benchmark).

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

Northern Dry Bulk TCR series: 2020=5.4 · 2023=12.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Northern Dry Bulk falls in its industry

2,784 Trucking, general freight, loc establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #98 safest of 103 Trucking, general freight, loc employers in Michigan.

Northern Dry Bulk (50 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Northern Dry Bulk
Northern Dry Bulk (50 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Northern Dry Bulk has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 12.8 12.8 7 1 0
2020 5.4 3.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · MI · Clare

2,784 Trucking, general freight, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 27 employers in Clare, 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 AURORA (ILOSW) 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BLUE BUCKET TRUCKING LLC - 509TRUK 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apex Transportation, Inc. 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Villa Transport LP 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Commonwealth Commerce Center 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gas Construction Midland 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-City Acoustical 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4066_7786 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR MidMichigan Medical Center-Clare 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR StageRight 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Logistics Inc. 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR JRGO, LLC 148 FTE
NAT-TCR Carris Health - New London Clinic 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tram-AK 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cottonwood Village 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Primrose Retirement Community of Kokomo 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hydradyne LLC 990 - Corporate 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hyundai Motor America - Eastern Region 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wagner Nineveh LLC 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coilplus Texas-Division of Coilplus Inc. 50 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: 2023, 2020. 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.