Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production · Michigan

Van Dyk Farms

Imlay City, MI · ~109 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Van Dyk Farms runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production workplace, earning a grade C.

Van Dyk Farms: 3.9 TCR = 86% of Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Van Dyk Farms safety composite

Van Dyk Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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 Dyk Farms: 2.6 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Van Dyk Farms's TCR rose 1.5 from 2.6 in 2022 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Imlay City, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 86% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Main
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Main (0.0 TCR gap)

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Van Dyk Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Van Dyk Farms averages 3.9 TCR (86% of the Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Van Dyk Farms TCR series: 2022=2.6 · 2023=5 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Van Dyk Farms falls in its industry

331 Lettuce farming, field, beddin establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

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 4 Lettuce farming, field, beddin employers in Michigan.

Van Dyk Farms (109 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Van Dyk Farms
Van Dyk Farms (109 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Van Dyk Farms has more employees than the Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant an median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2024 4.1 0.0 3 1 0
2023 5.0 2.5 2 2 1
2022 2.6 1.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · MI · Imlay City

331 Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 18 employers in Imlay City, 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 Main 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Golden R, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Coast Harvesting Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Endive Farms 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Martin 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Multi Drywall & Partition, LLC 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sensient Flavors, LLC 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Loose Plastics Inc. 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Imlay City MI 619 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vintech Industries 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR ValTec, LLC 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR 018-00465 150 FTE
NAT-TCR Addiction Recovery Care Association, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR G III LEATHER FASHIONS, INC./ SB Distribution Center 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Scandia Capital Partners LLC 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6558 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alan Vander Horst 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farmington ISD #192-Riverview Elementary 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 783 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 747 109 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: 2024, 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.