Fast-food restaurants · Michigan

Taco Bell - #4521

Ludington, MI · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Taco Bell - #4521 runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fast-food restaurants workplace, earning a grade D.

Taco Bell - #4521: 5.6 TCR = 188% of Fast-food restaurants BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Taco Bell - #4521 safety composite

Taco Bell - #4521 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.3

2018→2022

Taco Bell - #4521 injury rate improved

Taco Bell - #4521's TCR fell 11.3 from 11.3 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=11.3 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722513 · Ludington, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 188% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #31/54
  • PHOTO Kenmore #29
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kenmore #29 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Taco Bell - #4521 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Taco Bell - #4521 averages 5.6 TCR (188% of the Fast-food restaurants BLS benchmark).

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

Taco Bell - #4521 TCR series: 2018=11.3 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.0

Where Taco Bell - #4521 falls in its industry

1,014 Fast-food restaurants establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 54 Fast-food restaurants employers in Michigan.

Taco Bell - #4521 (27 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Taco Bell - #4521
Taco Bell - #4521 (27 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Taco Bell - #4521 has fewer employees than the Fast-food restaurants 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 11.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · MI · Ludington

1,014 Fast-food restaurants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 55 employers in Ludington, 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 Kenmore #29 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sonic Drive-In National City #6400 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR N. Medford Burger King 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 037 Santurce 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Badger Evergreen Nursery LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE K Drive Greenhouse Co 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (MO) 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Luurtsema Sales Inc. 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Ludington Hospital - SHLH 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2102 294 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ludington 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2102 274 FTE
NAT-TCR Clifton Springs Hospital 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pavestone - PUBB 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Zeller Transporation 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Homestead 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio CAT - Northern Kentucky 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE US - Branch Network : 0378 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE PAP El Paso 27 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.