Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Universal Staffing Services, Inc

Oxford, MI · ~53 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Universal Staffing Services, Inc runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Universal Staffing Services, Inc: 1.0 TCR = 44% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Universal Staffing Services, Inc safety composite

Universal Staffing Services, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

Universal Staffing Services, Inc held a steady TCR band

Universal Staffing Services, Inc's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=0.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Oxford, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 44% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/24
  • PHOTO JR Simplot Company-S…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JR Simplot Company-SGS Traver (0.0 TCR gap)

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Universal Staffing Services, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Universal Staffing Services, Inc averages 1.0 TCR (44% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Universal Staffing Services, Inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=0.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Universal Staffing Services, Inc falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 24 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Michigan.

Universal Staffing Services, Inc (53 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Universal Staffing Services, Inc
Universal Staffing Services, Inc (53 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Universal Staffing Services, Inc has more employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.1 0.0 4 0 0
2019 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2018 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · MI · Oxford

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 27 employers in Oxford, 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 JR Simplot Company-SGS Traver 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corporate Office 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SGS Retail - Ballico 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taylor Terminal (Agronomy) 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE EDL- Lansing Office 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Energy - Newaygo 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gas Construction Livonia 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Contractors, Inc. 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR MSP Industries Corporation 257 FTE
CITY-NEAR 197 - Oxford Twp 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR AAM-Oxford Manufacturing Facility 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frontier Distributing 111 FTE
NAT-TCR 3020 - Las Vegas, NV 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wesley Woods Health Cntr 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 11 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Seneca Medical Associates 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Woodlands at St. Barnabas, Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE COMCAST 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Praxair Distribution Inc 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grande Communicaitons Corpus Christi 53 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, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.