Dog food manufacturing · Michigan

Uckele Health & Nutrition

Blissfield, MI · ~268 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Uckele Health & Nutrition runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dog food manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Uckele Health & Nutrition: 6.2 TCR = 158% of Dog food manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Uckele Health & Nutrition safety composite

Uckele Health & Nutrition scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Uckele Health & Nutrition: 3.6 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2023

Uckele Health & Nutrition's TCR rose 5.1 from 3.6 in 2022 to 8.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Blissfield, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 158% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK P22
  • PHOTO BNG Phoebe, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~268 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BNG Phoebe, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Uckele Health & Nutrition in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Uckele Health & Nutrition averages 6.2 TCR (158% of the Dog food manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Uckele Health & Nutrition TCR series: 2022=3.6 · 2023=8.7 · BLS 3.9

Where Uckele Health & Nutrition falls in its industry

302 Dog food manufacturing establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Uckele Health & Nutrition (268 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Uckele Health & Nutrition
Uckele Health & Nutrition (268 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Uckele Health & Nutrition has more employees than the Dog food manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 8.7 8.2 16 1 0
2022 3.6 3.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · MI · Blissfield

302 Dog food manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 8 employers in Blissfield, 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 BNG Phoebe, LLC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fabrication Technologies Industries, Inc 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR BP20 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR World Pet Care 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dee Cramer 268 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hudsonville Ice Cream 268 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henrob US 268 FTE
STATE-SIZE HI-LEX AMERICA, INC. 268 FTE
CITY-NEAR LW Engineering Plant 4 424 FTE
CITY-NEAR L&W Engineering/Autokiniton 383 FTE
CITY-NEAR Autokiniton Blissfield 292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maxitrol Company-Blissfield Division 38 FTE
NAT-TCR Post Road 105 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Harmony Hospice 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Parkdale America LLC Plant 3 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Wire Products Company 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gulf Marine Repair 268 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Sheet Metal 268 FTE
NAT-SIZE County Of Ventura - General Services Agency 268 FTE
NAT-SIZE Casai - the Ups Store Inc 268 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.

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

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