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 113 of 328| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Rapids | Grand Rapids | Other Snack Food Manufacturi | D | 5.2 |
| Maple Lawn Medical Care Facility | Coldwater | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 5.2 |
| Chelsea Lumber Company-Saline | Saline | Home centers, building mater | D | 5.2 |
| Kraft South Assembly & Distribution | Kentwood | Motor vehicle moldings and e | D | 5.2 |
| Bucher Hydraulics, Inc. Newaygo, MI | Newaygo | Hydraulic pumps, fluid power | D | 5.2 |
| National Galvanizing | Monroe | Galvanizing metals and metal | D | 5.2 |
| Victor S. Barnes Co. | Grand Rapids | Building materials (e.g., fa | D | 5.2 |
| Dean Transportation, Inc. - Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo | Bus operation, school and em | C | 5.2 |
| Specialty Steel Treating, Inc. | Fraser | Annealing metals and metal p | D | 5.2 |
| 18 | Waterford | Retail automotive tires, acc | F | 5.2 |
| KSS Enterprises - Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo | Janitorial equipment and sup | F | 5.2 |
| 2248-63117 | Grosse Pointe Woods | Assisted Living | D | 5.2 |
| Warren MCPP | Warren | Plastics resins compounding | D | 5.2 |
| St. Clair Shores | St. Clair Shores | Apparel stores, used clothin | D | 5.2 |
| Ground Effects Warren 1990 | Warren | Spray-on bedliner installati | F | 5.2 |
| MI 1401 E Miller Rd | Lansing | - | F | 5.2 |
| 018-00708 | Brownstown Twp. | Retail grocery not including | D | 5.2 |
| Municipal Service Center | Marquette | General services departments | D | 5.2 |
| Accelerated Tooling LLC | Wyoming | Machine shops | D | 5.2 |
| City of Birmingham | Birmingham | Executive offices, federal, | D | 5.2 |
| 2288-0556 | Saginaw | Structural Pest Control | C | 5.2 |
| 252500-De Witt Po | Dewitt | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.2 |
| 4186-02708 | Ypsilanti | Dollar Stores | D | 5.2 |
| 2807-0761 | Burton | Homecenter | D | 5.2 |
| City of Ionia | Ionia | Government base facilities o | F | 5.2 |
| EJ - Sunfield Distribution | Sunfield | Structural assemblies, metal | F | 5.2 |
| Brookdale Grand Blanc Memory Care | Holly | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.2 |
| S05886 - Waters Hauling | Frederic | - | F | 5.2 |
| Everfresh Beverages, Inc | Warren | Beverages, fruit and vegetab | D | 5.2 |
| Dfa Fluid - Grand Rapids Mi - 2555 Buchanan | Wyoming | FLUID MILK MANUFACTURING | D | 5.2 |
| 1051M - Caledonia MRC | Caledonia | - | D | 5.2 |
| 018-00461 | Washington | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.2 |
| 2785 Three Rivers | Three Rivers | Home Centers | D | 5.2 |
| Monroe Regional Hospital | Monroe | General Medical and Surgical | B | 5.2 |
| FlavorSum, LLC | Kalamazoo | Extracts, food (except coffe | D | 5.2 |
| EDMORE | Edmore | Farm supplies merchant whole | F | 5.2 |
| E.B.T., Inc. | Wyoming | Wrecker services (i.e., towi | C | 5.2 |
| Brilar LLC | Oak Park | Landscape care and maintenan | C | 5.2 |
| Heat Treat | Detroit | Hardening (i.e., heat treati | D | 5.2 |
| Carmela Foods Distributing, Inc. | Fraser | Specialty Foods | F | 5.2 |
| 2731 Madison Heights | Madison Heights | Home Centers | D | 5.2 |
| AMG Operations LLC - Grand Rapids Location | Grand Rapids | Precision turned product man | D | 5.2 |
| Mimtp - Mount Pleasant | Mount Pleasant | Couriers and Express Deliver | C | 5.2 |
| Anchor Bay Packaging Corporation - Plant 1 | Chesterfield | 322211 Corrugated and Solid | D | 5.2 |
| GREENVILLE_1365655 | Greenville | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.2 |
| Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin | Kewadin | Fruit sorting, grading, and | C | 5.2 |
| Ira | Ira Township | Machine shops | D | 5.2 |
| Wm 6667 | Ypsilanti | - | D | 5.2 |
| Auburn Hills plant 36 | Auburn Hills | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | D | 5.2 |
| Taco Bell - #20618 | Traverse City | Fast-food restaurants | D | 5.2 |
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.