Road construction · Michigan

Ottawa County Road Commission

Grand Haven, MI · ~125 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ottawa County Road Commission runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Road construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Ottawa County Road Commission: 5.6 TCR = 200% of Road construction BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ottawa County Road Commission safety composite

Ottawa County Road Commission scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Ottawa County Road Commission: 3.7 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

Ottawa County Road Commission's TCR rose 1.6 from 3.7 in 2020 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Grand Haven, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 200% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #68/139
  • PHOTO Covington AHQ
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Covington AHQ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ottawa County Road Commission in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ottawa County Road Commission averages 5.6 TCR (200% of the Road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Ottawa County Road Commission TCR series: 2020=3.7 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Ottawa County Road Commission falls in its industry

4,078 Road construction establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #68 safest of 139 Road construction employers in Michigan.

Ottawa County Road Commission (125 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 Ottawa County Road Commission
Ottawa County Road Commission (125 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Ottawa County Road Commission has more employees than the Road construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 5.3 4.4 5 1 0
2023 6.3 5.4 7 0 0
2022 7.3 3.6 7 1 0
2021 5.5 1.8 3 3 0
2020 3.7 0.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MI · Grand Haven

4,078 Road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 81 employers in Grand Haven, 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 Covington AHQ 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Chicago - CDOT, Sign Management 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Derry Constuction Co Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haines & Kibblehouse, Inc. 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2552-Constantine, MI (Monsanto Co.) 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dan E Karn 1&2 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHRG DET 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeMaria 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grand Haven Area Public Schools 971 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shape Corp - 14600 172nd Ave. 592 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Ottawa Community Hospital 450 FTE
CITY-NEAR TH Grand Haven Hospital-MH-MI 409 FTE
NAT-TCR Goodwill Milpitas Store 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Warren, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Country Club of Virginia 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Moore Gear & Manufacturing Co 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Houston Community College - EDUC 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winter Haven Florida Facility 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wolfe County Health & Rehabilitation Center 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Hospital Logan County 125 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.