Correctional institutions · Michigan

Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility

Ionia, MI · ~301 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility runs at 373% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Correctional institutions workplace, earning a grade F.

Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility: 11.9 TCR = 373% of Correctional institutions BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility safety composite

Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 33.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility: 5.3 → 33.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 33.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.81× in 2020

Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility's TCR rose 28.3 from 5.3 in 2016 to 33.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922140 · Ionia, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 373% of ind

  • DART 33.6 DART
  • RANK #14/31
  • PHOTO Kinross Correctional…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 59 inj
  • SIZE ~301 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kinross Correctional Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility averages 11.9 TCR (373% of the Correctional institutions BLS benchmark).

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

Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=8 · 2020=33.6 · BLS 3.2

Where Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility falls in its industry

482 Correctional institutions establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 31 Correctional institutions employers in Michigan.

Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility (301 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 05001,0001,500 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility
Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility (301 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility has more employees than the Correctional institutions median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2020 33.6 33.6 7 96 0
2019 8.0 5.8 18 7 0
2018 6.3 4.4 16 4 0
2017 6.6 3.0 11 9 0
2016 5.3 1.6 7 10 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922140 · MI · Ionia

482 Correctional institutions employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 26 employers in Ionia, 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 Kinross Correctional Facility 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Az Department of Corrections 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bridgeport Corretional Center 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SILVERDALE 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Quincy MI (Kosher) 301 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blue Diamond Steel Casting LLC 301 FTE
STATE-SIZE Distribution Group 301 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer Inc 301 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ventra Ionia 1,383 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michigan Reformatory Correctional Facility 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ionia Correctional Facility 285 FTE
NAT-TCR Pleasant Valley Manor Care Center 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Old Village Landscaping, Inc. 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR WMS Omaha-West 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Steve Gambill - Shore/Form Systems, Inc. 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sprayfoam Southwest Inc. dba Roofing Southwest 301 FTE
NAT-SIZE Headquarters: Columbus Ohio 301 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sherco Generating Plant 301 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Windsor Ofc/Whse 301 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.