State profile · OSHA ITA
Michigan workplace safety
How 16,393 OSHA-reporting employers across Michigan compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 16,393
- Employers
- 5.3
- Avg TCR
- 330,220
- Injuries
- 202
- Fatalities
The state picture
Michigan's reporting employers average 5.3 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.0 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.3
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 16,393
- employers reporting
- 330,220
- recordable injuries
- 202
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
23% of Michigan's reporting establishments earn an F and 16% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Michigan ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRMichigan's average TCR of 5.3 is lower than 47% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
How Michigan Workplaces Compare
Michigan hosts 16,393 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Michigan cohort, workers have logged 330,220 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.3 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
The state has recorded 202 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Michigan, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Michigan, by injury rate
Page 101 of 328| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Public Schools | Jackson | Cafeteria food services cont | D | 5.7 |
| Lapeer County EMS Station 5 | Lapeer | Ambulance services, air or g | D | 5.7 |
| Detroit Commissary | Detroit | Food Service Contractors | D | 5.7 |
| City of Rochester | Rochester | City and town managers' offi | D | 5.7 |
| FANUC - Centerpoint | Pontiac | Industrial robot cells manuf | D | 5.7 |
| Espas, Inc. | Clinton Township | Job stampings, automotive, m | C | 5.7 |
| u.form Detroit, Inc. | Detroit | Motor vehicle metal stamping | C | 5.7 |
| RSC Mechanical, Inc | Clinton Township | Facilities (except computer | F | 5.7 |
| Wm 2867 | Lansing | - | D | 5.7 |
| South Haven Nursing & Rehabilitation Community | South Haven | Nursing homes | C | 5.7 |
| Champion Foods | New Boston | Food processing plant constr | D | 5.7 |
| 6659 | Madison Heights | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.7 |
| Select Specialty Hospital - Northwest Detroit, Inc. | Detroit | Hospitals, specialty (except | D | 5.7 |
| Riley's Grove Assisted Living | Zeeland Township | Residential property managin | F | 5.7 |
| Kalmbach Feeds of Michigan, LLC | Breckenridge | Animal feeds, prepared (exce | D | 5.7 |
| MDC Contracting Inc | Charlevoix | Precast concrete products (e | D | 5.7 |
| ReChaco | Rockford | Sandals, plastics or plastic | D | 5.7 |
| orchard hill sanitary landfill | Watervliet | Landfills | F | 5.7 |
| Biewer Sawmill | Mcbain | Beams, wood, made from logs | D | 5.7 |
| Kraft Mold | Kentwood | Motor vehicle moldings and e | D | 5.7 |
| Dean Transportation, Inc. - Lansing | Lansing | Bus operation, school and em | D | 5.7 |
| North End_1375307 | Detroit | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 5.7 |
| Alma Products I LLC | Alma | Transmissions and parts, aut | C | 5.7 |
| Maxitrol Company-Colon Division | Colon | Gas valves, industrial-type, | D | 5.7 |
| MI-FARMI02 | Farmington Hills | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.7 |
| 257642-Pon-West Bloomfield Sta | West Bloomfield | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 5.7 |
| North Woods Place | Escanaba | CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT C | D | 5.7 |
| Eenhoorn, LLC | Grand Rapids | Lessors of Residential Build | F | 5.7 |
| DG Woodhaven | Detroit | Human Services | D | 5.7 |
| 489110000 | Lansing | Transportation Air Cargo | C | 5.7 |
| Midway Motorhomes, Inc. | Grand Rapids | RV dealers | D | 5.7 |
| Parks/Forestry/Cemetery | Port Huron | City and town managers' offi | D | 5.7 |
| Feeding America West Michigan | Comstock Park | Community meals, social serv | D | 5.7 |
| 721 - Detroit | Livonia | Industrial Launderers | F | 5.7 |
| Journeyman Distillery, LLC | Three Oaks | Full service restaurants | D | 5.7 |
| Gift of Life Michigan | Ann Arbor | Organ donor centers, body | D | 5.7 |
| Migrn - Grand Rapids Hub | Wyoming | Couriers and Express Deliver | C | 5.7 |
| Falcon Fire Protection LLC | Jackson | Fire sprinkler system instal | F | 5.7 |
| Protocon RM Plant 178 | Sterling Heights | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | D | 5.7 |
| 1791 | Fremont | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.7 |
| Shiawassee County Road Commission | Corunna | Pavement, highway, road, str | F | 5.7 |
| DieTech Tool & Mfg | Imlay City | Job stampings, automotive, m | C | 5.7 |
| Go-To Transport, Inc. | Bay City | General freight trucking, lo | D | 5.7 |
| Line Precision, Inc. | Farmington Hills | Machine shops | D | 5.7 |
| Select Specialty Hospital - Grosse Pointe, Inc | Detroit | Hospitals, specialty (except | D | 5.7 |
| 3922_7516 | Ceder Springs | - | D | 5.7 |
| 6653_15392 | South Haven | - | D | 5.7 |
| 018-00706 | Richmond | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.7 |
| Mission Point of Lamont | Lamont | Nursing homes | C | 5.7 |
| Midet183 Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hosp - Madison Heights | Madison Heights | General medical and surgical | B | 5.7 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Michigan's safety record means for you
Michigan averages a TCR of 5.3 - about 2.0× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.