Cement plant construction · Michigan

Vanderwall Brothers

Spring Lake, MI · ~28 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vanderwall Brothers runs at 233% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cement plant construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Vanderwall Brothers: 6.8 TCR = 233% of Cement plant construction BLS 2.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vanderwall Brothers safety composite

Vanderwall Brothers scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Vanderwall Brothers: 0.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 15.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2023

Vanderwall Brothers's TCR rose 3.9 from 0.0 in 2020 to 3.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 15.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236210 · Spring Lake, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 233% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #35/39
  • PHOTO Producers Rice Mill,…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Producers Rice Mill, Inc. Stuttgart Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vanderwall Brothers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vanderwall Brothers averages 6.8 TCR (233% of the Cement plant construction BLS benchmark).

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

Vanderwall Brothers TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=15.9 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=3.9 · BLS 2.9

Where Vanderwall Brothers falls in its industry

924 Cement plant construction establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 39 Cement plant construction employers in Michigan.

Vanderwall Brothers (28 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Vanderwall Brothers
Vanderwall Brothers (28 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Vanderwall Brothers has fewer employees than the Cement plant construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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
2023 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2022 7.3 7.3 2 0 0
2021 15.9 4.0 4 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236210 · MI · Spring Lake

924 Cement plant construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 38 employers in Spring Lake, 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 Producers Rice Mill, Inc. Stuttgart Construction 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Labcraft, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clay Ingels Company, LLC. 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hamlin Farms 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crossroads Dairy 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Traverse Assembly DBA Grand Traverse Pallet 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zeeland Generation 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Herman Miller, Inc, (Meridian) - 171st 792 FTE
CITY-NEAR MillerKnoll, Inc, (Meridian) - 171st 636 FTE
CITY-NEAR Herman Miller (Meridian) Hickory 333 FTE
CITY-NEAR MillerKnoll (Meridian) Hickory 312 FTE
NAT-TCR Local Government 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cheever Construction 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St Matthews 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Restoration 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ross Transportation Services, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Red River Biorefinery 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hill's Cleaners 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 21 - Charleston 28 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.