Poultry and poultry products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Sherwood Foods-Detroit

Detroit, MI · ~298 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sherwood Foods-Detroit runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Poultry and poultry products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Sherwood Foods-Detroit: 5.3 TCR = 243% of Poultry and poultry products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sherwood Foods-Detroit safety composite

Sherwood Foods-Detroit scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−2.9

2016→2017

Sherwood Foods-Detroit injury rate improved

Sherwood Foods-Detroit's TCR fell 2.9 from 6.8 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.8 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.8 · 2017=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424440 · Detroit, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.3 · 243% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK P50
  • PHOTO Los Angeles Poultry …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~298 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Los Angeles Poultry Co Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sherwood Foods-Detroit in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sherwood Foods-Detroit averages 5.3 TCR (243% of the Poultry and poultry products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Sherwood Foods-Detroit TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=3.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Sherwood Foods-Detroit falls in its industry

46 Poultry and poultry products ( establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sherwood Foods-Detroit (298 employees, TCR 5.3) among 27 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 5.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 28 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 Sherwood Foods-Detroit
Sherwood Foods-Detroit (298 employees, TCR 5.3) among 27 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Sherwood Foods-Detroit has more employees than the Poultry and poultry products (except can median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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
2017 3.9 3.3 12 0 0
2016 6.8 4.5 21 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424440 · MI · Detroit

46 Poultry and poultry products (except canned, packaged frozen) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 673 employers in Detroit, 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 Los Angeles Poultry Co Inc 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NEALEY FOODS INC 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Egg Central Station 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gingrich Animal Supply, Inc. 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE J Ranck Electric, Inc. 298 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thermotron 298 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plastic Omnium - Adrian 298 FTE
STATE-SIZE Legacy Industries 298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Hospital 8,838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Detroit Campus 8,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - DTW 6,640 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Corporation 5,241 FTE
NAT-TCR 0397 - Pennsauken, Nj 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR West Chester (Pawes) 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Roseburg (Orros) 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mansfield (Ohman) 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tukwila (Waken) 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yorktown (Nyyor) 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acute Care Hospital 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE Realty Operations Group 298 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: 2017, 2016. 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.