Leather footwear manufacturing · Michigan

Original Footwear Manufacturing BR Inc.

Big Rapids, MI · ~190 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Original Footwear Manufacturing BR Inc. runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Leather footwear manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Original Footwear Manufacturing BR Inc.: 7.5 TCR = 226% of Leather footwear manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Original Footwear Manufacturing BR Inc. safety composite

Original Footwear Manufacturing BR Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Original Footwear Manufacturing BR Inc.: 5.3 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2022

Original Footwear Manufacturing BR Inc.'s TCR rose 4.2 from 5.3 in 2021 to 9.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 316210 · Big Rapids, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 226% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK P16
  • PHOTO Red Wing Shoe Co. - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~190 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Original Footwear Manufacturing BR Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Original Footwear Manufacturing BR Inc. averages 7.5 TCR (226% of the Leather footwear manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Original Footwear Manufacturing BR Inc. TCR series: 2021=5.3 · 2022=9.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Original Footwear Manufacturing BR Inc. falls in its industry

62 Leather footwear manufacturing establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Original Footwear Manufacturing BR Inc. (190 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 Original Footwear Manufacturing BR Inc.
Original Footwear Manufacturing BR Inc. (190 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Original Footwear Manufacturing BR Inc. has more employees than the Leather footwear manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2022 9.6 5.3 18 0 0
2021 5.3 3.7 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

316210 · MI · Big Rapids

62 Leather footwear manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 45 employers in Big Rapids, 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 Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR McRae Industries Footwear Finishing / Shipping 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norway 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lewiston MFG 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wyoming Manufacturing Facility 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Decorative Panels International, Inc. 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE MEC main 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Systrand Manufacturing Corporation 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Rapids Campus 2,664 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spectrum Health Big Rapids Hospital 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Rapids Products 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1719 313 FTE
NAT-TCR 0218 - Sterling Va Whse 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1042 - Redwood City Ca Whse 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0017 - Eugene or Whse 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Regent Bellevue 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1192 - Mobile Al Whse 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Distribution/Corporate 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fingerlakes Campus 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belmont Management Co., Inc. 190 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: 2022, 2021. 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.