Water treatment and distribution · Michigan

Water Lake Plant

West Olive, MI · ~30 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Water Lake Plant runs at 533% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Water Lake Plant: 6.4 TCR = 533% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Water Lake Plant safety composite

Water Lake Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Water Lake Plant: 11.2 → 15.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.77× in 2024

Water Lake Plant's TCR rose 3.9 from 11.2 in 2019 to 15.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · West Olive, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 533% of ind

  • DART 11.3 DART
  • RANK #16/26
  • PHOTO City of Albany-Publi…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Albany-Public Works Operations/WRF (0.0 TCR gap)

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Water Lake Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Water Lake Plant averages 6.4 TCR (533% of the Water treatment and distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Water Lake Plant TCR series: 2019=11.2 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=4 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=15.1 · BLS 1.2

Where Water Lake Plant falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 26 Water treatment and distributi employers in Michigan.

Water Lake Plant (30 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Water Lake Plant
Water Lake Plant (30 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Water Lake Plant has fewer employees than the Water treatment and distribution median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 15.1 11.3 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2021 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2020 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2019 11.2 3.7 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · MI · West Olive

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 9 employers in West Olive, 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 City of Albany-Public Works Operations/WRF 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moss Point MS 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wheaton Sanitary District 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Haven Waste Water Treatment 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kitchen Farms, Inc. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Revolution Farms 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE TES Filer City Station 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Fermi II Nuclear Power Plant Project 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottawa County 1,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottawa County - West Olive Campus 504 FTE
CITY-NEAR JH Campbell Annex 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR JH Campbell 1&2 170 FTE
NAT-TCR Bartlett Repro 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpine Plumbing, Inc 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Haviland Drainage Products 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Quality Excavation, Inc 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Madison Turf Farms 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oldcastle APG - Powderly L&G 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oldcastle APG - Dallas L&G 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dupuy Storage Houston, LLC 30 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.