Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing · Michigan

WK-Oliver Packaging & Equipment Company

Walker, MI · ~78 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WK-Oliver Packaging & Equipment Company runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

WK-Oliver Packaging & Equipment Company: 2.1 TCR = 63% of Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WK-Oliver Packaging & Equipment Company safety composite

WK-Oliver Packaging & Equipment Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

WK-Oliver Packaging & Equipment Company: 2.1 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

WK-Oliver Packaging & Equipment Company's TCR rose 0.8 from 2.1 in 2018 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333241 · Walker, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 63% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P71
  • PHOTO The Fred D. Pfening …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fred D. Pfening Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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WK-Oliver Packaging & Equipment Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WK-Oliver Packaging & Equipment Company averages 2.1 TCR (63% of the Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

WK-Oliver Packaging & Equipment Company TCR series: 2018=2.1 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where WK-Oliver Packaging & Equipment Company falls in its industry

215 Bakery machinery and equipment establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
WK-Oliver Packaging & Equipment Company (78 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate WK-Oliver Packaging & Equipment Company
WK-Oliver Packaging & Equipment Company (78 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

WK-Oliver Packaging & Equipment Company has fewer employees than the Bakery machinery and equipment manufactu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 2.9 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.8 0.0 2 0 0
2021 2.5 1.3 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.2 0.0 4 0 0
2018 2.1 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · MI · Walker

215 Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 67 employers in Walker, 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 The Fred D. Pfening Company 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BE&SCO 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR OLM Food Systems Sioux Falls - 4040 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The J E Grote Company, Inc. 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Henry Mast Greenhouses Inc. 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Joseph Office and Service Center 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Signal Restoration USA 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Enclosure Company, LLC 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DGR1 793 FTE
CITY-NEAR BHI Bissell Homecare Inc. 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Walker Stamping & Assembly (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 1) 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Contract Manufacturing Grand Rapids 465 FTE
NAT-TCR P&S Cochran Printers Inc./ PIP Marketing Signs Print 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ferno-Washington Inc 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Casa Mechanical Services - New Braunfels 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bacardi Jacksonville Distribution Center - 02 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE WEMA Logistics LLC. 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Windsor of Gainesville 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shawn's Lawns Inc. 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE HGI Corporate 78 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.