Police and fire departments, combined · Michigan

Van Buren Charter Township

Belleville, MI · ~174 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Van Buren Charter Township runs at 263% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police and fire departments, combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Van Buren Charter Township: 8.4 TCR = 263% of Police and fire departments, combined BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Van Buren Charter Township safety composite

Van Buren Charter Township scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 8.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−5.0

2016→2019

Van Buren Charter Township injury rate improved

Van Buren Charter Township's TCR fell 5.0 from 11.2 in 2016 to 6.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.2 · 2018=7.7 · 2019=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Belleville, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 263% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/33
  • PHOTO Jail
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~174 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jail (0.0 TCR gap)

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Van Buren Charter Township in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Van Buren Charter Township averages 8.4 TCR (263% of the Police and fire departments, combined BLS benchmark).

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

Van Buren Charter Township TCR series: 2016=11.2 · 2018=7.7 · 2019=6.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Van Buren Charter Township falls in its industry

716 Police and fire departments, c establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 33 Police and fire departments, c employers in Michigan.

Van Buren Charter Township (174 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Van Buren Charter Township
Van Buren Charter Township (174 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Van Buren Charter Township has more employees than the Police and fire departments, combined median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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
2019 6.3 0.0 9 1 0
2018 7.7 3.8 12 0 0
2016 11.2 1.3 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · MI · Belleville

716 Police and fire departments, combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 70 employers in Belleville, 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 Jail 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TCSO Ops Pville Sub 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Service Professor GR 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corium Innovations, Inc. 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unistrut International Corporation - Wayne Operation 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brown LLC 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR NEAPCO Drivelines 640 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5481 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR LW Engineering Plant 2 332 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2872 300 FTE
NAT-TCR Plant 7 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1111 Andersen Dr 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Abs 0028 3534 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0004 0801 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mercy Retirement and Care Center 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Qure Medical - Sturtevant 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : MFG-Rushville, IN-USA 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Collections Systems Maintenance Division 174 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.