Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers · Michigan

Van Buren

Belleville, MI · ~203 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Van Buren runs at 315% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Van Buren: 6.9 TCR = 315% of Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Van Buren safety composite

Van Buren scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Van Buren: 6.3 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2020

Van Buren's TCR rose 0.8 from 6.3 in 2017 to 7.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Belleville, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 315% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #30/48
  • PHOTO C028 Hagerstown
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~203 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: C028 Hagerstown (0.0 TCR gap)

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Van Buren in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Van Buren averages 6.9 TCR (315% of the Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Van Buren TCR series: 2017=6.3 · 2018=11 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=7 · BLS 2.2

Where Van Buren falls in its industry

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Prod establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 48 Other Grocery and Related Prod employers in Michigan.

Van Buren (203 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Van Buren
Van Buren (203 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Van Buren has more employees than the Other Grocery and Related Products Merch median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 7.0 7.0 11 0 0
2019 3.4 3.4 6 0 0
2018 11.0 10.4 19 0 0
2017 6.3 5.7 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · MI · Belleville

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers 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 C028 Hagerstown 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Choice Vending Company 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westrock Coffee Company - Gregory DC 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR C009 Pikeville 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Legacy Labor, Inc 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hoffman Bros., Inc. 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moersch Hospitality Group 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE headquarters 203 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 Acousti of Columbus, Inc 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR SIDS-Suwanee Suffolk/Sussex Del/#51000 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR J Porter Enterprises 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1682 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE SMCTD_North Base Bus Transportation 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE Matsu - Alabama 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE IN012 Richmond (G Street) Container 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE FRHC - Seattle 203 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, 2017. 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.