Baby foods, canned, merchant wholesalers · Michigan

SAS Walker

Grand Rapids, MI · ~415 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SAS Walker runs at 262% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Baby foods, canned, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

SAS Walker: 5.8 TCR = 262% of Baby foods, canned, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SAS Walker safety composite

SAS Walker scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−1.3

2022→2023

SAS Walker injury rate improved

SAS Walker's TCR fell 1.3 from 6.4 in 2022 to 5.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.4 · 2023=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Grand Rapids, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.8 · 262% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #23/48
  • PHOTO WILLIAMSPORT MD
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~415 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WILLIAMSPORT MD (0.0 TCR gap)

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SAS Walker in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SAS Walker averages 5.8 TCR (262% of the Baby foods, canned, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

SAS Walker TCR series: 2022=6.4 · 2023=5.1 · BLS 2.2

Where SAS Walker falls in its industry

1,278 Baby foods, canned, merchant w establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 48 Baby foods, canned, merchant w employers in Michigan.

SAS Walker (415 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate SAS Walker
SAS Walker (415 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

SAS Walker has more employees than the Baby foods, canned, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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
2023 5.1 4.6 19 0 0
2022 6.4 4.8 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · MI · Grand Rapids

1,278 Baby foods, canned, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 1,006 employers in Grand 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 WILLIAMSPORT MD 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LBH Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corinth Coca-Cola 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NICKLES-TOLEDO 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Par Sterile Products LLC 415 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tenneco INC. 415 FTE
STATE-SIZE Magna 39600 415 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kalamazoo College 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA 9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Butterworth Hospital 7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR ISE Newberry Silverstreet Processing 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR West-Con (Twin Brooks) 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Geneva Pipe & Precast - Washington 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Chicago Dept of Assets, Information and Services - 900 E. 103rd St 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE BT Beltsville 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vineyard Management 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE BD Biosciences 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tigerpoly Mfg., Inc. 415 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: 2023, 2022. 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.