Secondary schools offering both academic and technical courses · Michigan

Northwestern Michigan College

Name: Northwestern Michigan College Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Traverse City, MI · ~705 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 1.8
Avg TCR: 1.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Northwestern Michigan College runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Secondary schools offering both academic and technical courses workplace, earning a grade D.

Northwestern Michigan College: 1.8 TCR = 126% of Secondary schools offering both academic and technical courses BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwestern Michigan College safety composite

Northwestern Michigan College scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% 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).

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−0.7

2018→2019

Northwestern Michigan College injury rate improved

Northwestern Michigan College's TCR fell 0.7 from 2.1 in 2018 to 1.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.1 · 2019=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Traverse City, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 1.8 · 126% of ind

DART 0.2 DART
RANK #41/142
PHOTO 001 - Education Center
BOOK 2y book
INJ 15 inj
SIZE ~705 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 001 - Education Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.8
001 - Educatio

1.8
Culpeper Count

1.8
East Syracuse

1.8
Oak Crest Elem

1.8

What this shows Northwestern Michigan College averages 1.8 TCR (126% of the Secondary schools offering both academic and technical courses BLS benchmark).

Northwestern Michigan College TCR series: 2018=2.1 · 2019=1.4 · BLS 1.4

Where Northwestern Michigan College falls in its industry

3,374 Secondary schools offering bot establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 142 Secondary schools offering bot employers in Michigan.

Northwestern Michigan College (705 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Northwestern Michigan College has more employees than the Secondary schools offering both academic median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2019	1.4	0.2	8	0	0
2018	2.1	0.5	7	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MI · Traverse City

3,374 Secondary schools offering both academic and technical courses 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	001 - Education Center	INDIANAPOLIS, IN	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Culpeper County Public Schools	CULPEPER, VA	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	East Syracuse Elementary	EAST SYRACUSE, NY	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Oak Crest Elementary	BELLE PLAINE, MN	1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Parnall Office	JACKSON	705 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BHI Bissell Homecare Inc.	WALKER	705 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MyMichigan Medical Center Alma	MIDLAND	705 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Tenneco, Inc.	MARSHALL	703 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Munson Medical Center	Traverse City	3,845 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Munson Healthcare	Traverse City	830 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Northwestern Michigan College - 28999	Traverse City	569 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Grand Traverse County	Traverse City	548 FTE
NAT-TCR	6962-Swy 0029 1969	Bakersfield, CA	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Radial INC- 7601 Trade Port	Louisville, KY	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	00-TTCO-BIRMINGHAM	Birmingham, AL	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	249 - Matthews	Matthews, NC	1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Plainsboro	Plainsboro, NJ	705 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Amzl : Dmi2	Miami Gardens, FL	705 FTE
NAT-SIZE	North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : STL6	Edwardsville, IL	705 FTE
NAT-SIZE	USS Fairfield Works - Tubular	Fairfield, AL	705 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.