Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing · Michigan

welchs

Lawton, MI · ~76 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

welchs runs at 149% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

welchs: 4.9 TCR = 149% of Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

welchs safety composite

welchs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.2

2016→2019

welchs injury rate improved

welchs's TCR fell 7.2 from 9.5 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.5 · 2017=5.5 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 149% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #25/41
  • PHOTO Stahlbush Island Far…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stahlbush Island Farms, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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welchs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows welchs averages 4.9 TCR (149% of the Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

welchs TCR series: 2016=9.5 · 2017=5.5 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where welchs falls in its industry

330 Beverages, fruit and vegetable establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 41 Beverages, fruit and vegetable employers in Michigan.

welchs (76 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate welchs
welchs (76 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

welchs has fewer employees than the Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, ma 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
2019 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2018 2.3 1.1 2 0 0
2017 5.5 5.5 5 0 0
2016 9.5 6.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · MI · Lawton

330 Beverages, fruit and vegetable juice, 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Stahlbush Island Farms, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Morning Star Packing Company 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Materne North America 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Morning Star Packing LB 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fluresh Grand Rapids 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Operation Grow, LLC 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Energy Developments 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benton Harbor Service Center 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Welch's Food Inc. Lawton 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR HONEE BEAR CANNING 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Welch Foods Inc. Lawton 90 FTE
NAT-TCR Bryan East Campus 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cdsd Balt/Wash (Landover) 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Barber Manufacturing 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Chase Granite Falls 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE TNI - Charleston, MO 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jsl Companion Services/Living Well 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE ATI6106 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pullman Building Supply 76 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.