Veneer mills, hardwood · Michigan

Northern Michigan Veneers

Gladstone, MI · ~41 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Michigan Veneers runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Veneer mills, hardwood workplace, earning a grade D.

Northern Michigan Veneers: 4.6 TCR = 139% of Veneer mills, hardwood BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Michigan Veneers safety composite

Northern Michigan Veneers scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.3

2021→2023

Northern Michigan Veneers injury rate improved

Northern Michigan Veneers's TCR fell 7.3 from 7.3 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=7.3 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321211 · Gladstone, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 139% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO Decorative Panels In…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Decorative Panels International, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northern Michigan Veneers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Michigan Veneers averages 4.6 TCR (139% of the Veneer mills, hardwood BLS benchmark).

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

Northern Michigan Veneers TCR series: 2021=7.3 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Northern Michigan Veneers falls in its industry

116 Veneer mills, hardwood establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 8 Veneer mills, hardwood employers in Michigan.

Northern Michigan Veneers (41 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Northern Michigan Veneers
Northern Michigan Veneers (41 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Northern Michigan Veneers has fewer employees than the Veneer mills, hardwood median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.4 4.3 3 0 0
2021 7.3 2.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321211 · MI · Gladstone

116 Veneer mills, hardwood employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 6 employers in Gladstone, 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 Decorative Panels International, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR T.C. Millwork Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR H.E. Browder Veneer Company, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant H5 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Otsego 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Service Center 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zolman Restoration, LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nugent Builders, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Payne & Dolan, Inc - MI/Shop/Trans./QC/Mfg. 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR VanAire 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3857_7372 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marble's Gun Sights, Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-TCR Suddath Relocation Systems of Charlotte, LLC 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Knife Co, Inc DBA a.G. Russell Knives, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Somat Company 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Epcor Foundries 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Birchwood Manufacturing Company 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingsley Specialty Care 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highland Tank of North Carolina 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ericco Mfg 41 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.