Education · Michigan

Northwestern Michigan College - 28999

Traverse City, MI · ~569 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Education workplace, earning a grade D.

Northwestern Michigan College - 28999: 1.7 TCR = 123% of Education BLS 1.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 safety composite

Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.6

2016→2024

Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 injury rate improved

Northwestern Michigan College - 28999's TCR fell 1.6 from 3.2 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.2 · 2017=1.9 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Traverse City, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 1.7 · 123% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Minnesota State Coll…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~569 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Minnesota State College Southeast Red Wing Campus (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 averages 1.7 TCR (123% of the Education BLS benchmark).

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

Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2017=1.9 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=2 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 1.4

Where Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 falls in its industry

127 Education establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

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 5 Education employers in Michigan.

Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 (569 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Northwestern Michigan College - 28999
Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 (569 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 has more employees than the Education median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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 1.6 0.0 5 1 0
2023 2.0 0.3 8 0 0
2022 1.4 0.2 5 1 0
2021 0.5 0.3 2 0 0
2020 1.4 0.5 6 0 0
2017 1.9 1.4 8 0 0
2016 3.2 1.0 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · MI · Traverse City

127 Education 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 Minnesota State College Southeast Red Wing Campus 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elkhorn Campus 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kalamazoo Valley Community College 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberal Arts Campus and Pacific Coast Campus 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE AJM Packaging - Southgate 569 FTE
STATE-SIZE BAE SYSTEMS 569 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bandit Industries, Inc. 570 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benteler Automotive 568 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munson Medical Center 3,845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munson Healthcare 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Michigan College 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grand Traverse County 548 FTE
NAT-TCR INDYO 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR FoodTown #207 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Crescent Park Corporation - D1 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Firelands Electric Cooperative, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE LAX 569 FTE
NAT-SIZE Murphy Company (Missouri) 569 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lennox Residential - Lennox Stores 569 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 569 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, 2021, 2020, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.