Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing · Michigan

UFP Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids, MI · ~175 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

UFP Grand Rapids runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

UFP Grand Rapids: 1.5 TCR = 46% of Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UFP Grand Rapids safety composite

UFP Grand Rapids scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

UFP Grand Rapids: 1.1 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

UFP Grand Rapids's TCR rose 0.9 from 1.1 in 2018 to 2.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Grand Rapids, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/32
  • PHOTO Montgomeryville, PA …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~175 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Montgomeryville, PA - 53 (0.0 TCR gap)

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UFP Grand Rapids in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UFP Grand Rapids averages 1.5 TCR (46% of the Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

UFP Grand Rapids TCR series: 2018=1.1 · 2020=2 · BLS 3.3

Where UFP Grand Rapids falls in its industry

474 Foam plastics products (except establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 32 Foam plastics products (except employers in Michigan.

UFP Grand Rapids (175 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate UFP Grand Rapids
UFP Grand Rapids (175 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

UFP Grand Rapids has more employees than the Foam plastics products (except polystren median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 2.0 0.0 3 0 0
2018 1.1 0.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · MI · Grand Rapids

474 Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing 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 Montgomeryville, PA - 53 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Interstate Foam & Supply, Inc. Plant 2 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scott Manufacturing Henderson 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Future Foam Fairless Hills 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kenwal Steel Corp 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Xtreme Powerline Construction Inc 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dart Container Mason Cup Mfg. 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 3 175 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 Roses 343 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : GFK - Grand Forks 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Southwest Precision Printers & Associates, LP 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sby 19 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ORC 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bluewater Environmental Services, Inc. 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ankeny Shared Services 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0016-Behavioral Health Davidson 175 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, 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.