Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding · Michigan

Northwest Michigan Surgery Center (dba Copper Ridge Surgery Center)

Traverse City, MI · ~176 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northwest Michigan Surgery Center (dba Copper Ridge Surgery Center) runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding workplace, earning a grade C.

Northwest Michigan Surgery Center (dba Copper Ridge Surgery Center): 4.4 TCR = 115% of Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwest Michigan Surgery Center (dba Copper Ridge Surgery Center) safety composite

Northwest Michigan Surgery Center (dba Copper Ridge Surgery Center) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Northwest Michigan Surgery Center (dba Copper Ridge Surgery Center): 3.6 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Northwest Michigan Surgery Center (dba Copper Ridge Surgery Center)'s TCR rose 0.9 from 3.6 in 2022 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621493 · Traverse City, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 115% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/29
  • PHOTO NAEC ASC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~176 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NAEC ASC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northwest Michigan Surgery Center (dba Copper Ridge Surgery Center) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwest Michigan Surgery Center (dba Copper Ridge Surgery Center) averages 4.4 TCR (115% of the Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding BLS benchmark).

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

Northwest Michigan Surgery Center (dba Copper Ridge Surgery Center) TCR series: 2022=3.6 · 2023=5 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.8

Where Northwest Michigan Surgery Center (dba Copper Ridge Surgery Center) falls in its industry

498 Ambulatory surgical centers an establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 29 Ambulatory surgical centers an employers in Michigan.

Northwest Michigan Surgery Center (dba Copper Ridge Surgery Center) (176 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Northwest Michigan Surgery Center (dba Copper Ridge Surgery Center)
Northwest Michigan Surgery Center (dba Copper Ridge Surgery Center) (176 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Northwest Michigan Surgery Center (dba Copper Ridge Surgery Center) has more employees than the Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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 4.5 0.0 0 6 0
2023 5.0 2.5 7 1 0
2022 3.6 0.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621493 · MI · Traverse City

498 Ambulatory surgical centers and clinics, freestanding employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 197 employers in Traverse City, 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 NAEC ASC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Lakes Bay Surgery and Endoscopy Center 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR St Mary's Medical Center 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gretna Medical Center 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Burnette Foods, Hartford 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gray & Company 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ferndale Maize LLC 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utica 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munson Medical Center 3,845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munson Healthcare 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Michigan College 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 569 FTE
NAT-TCR 1119 Greenville 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonesta Resort Hilton Head Island 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR C&C Sage, Inc. dba True Blue (San Antonio) 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Starfleet Logistics LLC 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE DGR Operations Center 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baker Equipment & Materials, LTD 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6095 176 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.