Juices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing · Michigan

Welch's Food Inc. Lawton

Name: Welch's Food Inc. Lawton Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Lawton, MI · ~114 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Welch's Food Inc. Lawton runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Juices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Welch's Food Inc. Lawton: 5.4 TCR = 165% of Juices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Welch's Food Inc. Lawton safety composite

Welch's Food Inc. Lawton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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).

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 5.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Welch's Food Inc. Lawton: 3.3 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2023

Welch's Food Inc. Lawton's TCR rose 4.3 from 3.3 in 2022 to 7.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Lawton, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 165% of ind

DART 3.2 DART
RANK #26/41
PHOTO McCall Farms INC
BOOK 2y book
INJ 14 inj
SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McCall Farms INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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McCall Farms I

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Violet Packing

5.4
2453-00060248-

5.4

What this shows Welch's Food Inc. Lawton averages 5.4 TCR (165% of the Juices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Welch's Food Inc. Lawton TCR series: 2022=3.3 · 2023=7.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Welch's Food Inc. Lawton falls in its industry

330 Juices, fruit or vegetable, fr establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 41 Juices, fruit or vegetable, fr employers in Michigan.

Welch's Food Inc. Lawton (114 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Welch's Food Inc. Lawton has fewer employees than the Juices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manuf median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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	7.6	3.2	11	1	0
2022	3.3	3.3	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · MI · Lawton

330 Juices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 4 employers in Lawton, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	McCall Farms INC	EFFINGHAM, SC	5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Violet Packing	PARSIPPANY, NJ	5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2453-00060248-60248	BRIDGEPORT, NJ	5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Seneca Foods Corporation - Cumberland	CUMBERLAND, WI	5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Infrastructure Alternatives Inc	ROCKFORD	114 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Construction	MARINE CITY	114 FTE
STATE-SIZE	City of Detroit	DETROIT	114 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Northern Boiler & Mechanical Contractors, Inc.	MUSKEGON	114 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HONEE BEAR CANNING	Lawton	103 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Welch Foods Inc. Lawton	Lawton	90 FTE
CITY-NEAR	welchs	Lawton	76 FTE
NAT-TCR	MCR King of Prussia Tenant LLC	King of Prussia, PA	5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Store 0130	Minot, ND	5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Store 0195	Dawsonville, GA	5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Fort Collins Operations Center-400	Fort Collins, CO	5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	MCR Newark Airport LLC	Elizabeth, NJ	114 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Unit #0232	Tacoma, WA	114 FTE
NAT-SIZE	USM Store #682 (ALBERTSONS MARKET)	Ruidoso, NM	114 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Baggett Transportation Company	Birmingham, AL	114 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. 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.