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 132 of 328| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond | Lenox | Commercial and industrial ma | F | 4.6 |
| Glacier Hills Senior Living Community-THSC | Ann Arbor | Continuing care retirement c | D | 4.6 |
| Hope Network Behavioral Health | Grand Rapids | Job Training and Related Ser | D | 4.6 |
| Hollingsworth USPS Temperance | Temperance | General warehousing and stor | B | 4.6 |
| D&R Fabrication DBA: Belding Tank Technologies | Belding | Tanks, storage, plastics or | D | 4.6 |
| Hedke Painting | Grand Rapids | Painting and wallpapering | D | 4.6 |
| Flat River Group GRR | Kentwood | Toys (including electronic) | F | 4.6 |
| L & K Coffee Co dba Magnum Coffee Roastery | Nunica | Coffee, blended, manufacturi | C | 4.6 |
| White Cloud | White Cloud | House plant growing | C | 4.6 |
| Noble Company | Spring Lake | Cocks, drain, plumbing, manu | D | 4.6 |
| Country Oaks Elementary School | Commerce Twp | Elementary schools | F | 4.6 |
| Mary Free Bed Orthotics & Prosthetics | Grand Rapids | Rehabilitation hospitals (ex | D | 4.6 |
| Phrg Det | Novi | Construction management, res | C | 4.6 |
| Presbyterian Villages of Michigan | Southfield | Assisted-living facilities w | C | 4.6 |
| 018-00890 | East Lansing | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.6 |
| Star EMS | Pontiac | Ambulance services, air or g | C | 4.6 |
| Hazmat Environmental Group, Inc. - Mount Clemens | Mount Clemens | General freight trucking, lo | C | 4.6 |
| 82 | Monroe | Retail automotive tires, acc | F | 4.6 |
| 2701 Pontiac | Pontiac | Home Centers | D | 4.6 |
| 611 - Kalamazoo West | Kalamazoo | - | D | 4.6 |
| 2807-1814 | Commerce Township | Homecenter | D | 4.6 |
| Harding's Middleville | Middleville | Commissaries, primarily groc | D | 4.6 |
| Bed Bath and Beyond Muskegon | Muskegon | retailing new home furnishin | D | 4.6 |
| Christmas Tree Shops Taylor | Taylor | retailing gifts novelty mer | D | 4.6 |
| Corunna Rd. Store | Flint | Used merchandise stores | D | 4.6 |
| MI 12775 Lyndon Road | Detroit | - | F | 4.6 |
| Covenant Retir Communities of Gr Lks | Grand Rapids | Continuing Care Retirement C | C | 4.6 |
| At Home Stores #55 | Dearborn | Housewares stores | D | 4.6 |
| MPT Sterling Heights | Sterling Heights | Job stampings, automotive, m | C | 4.5 |
| Bradford Company | Holland | Boxes, corrugated and solid | D | 4.5 |
| Premier Industries | Monroe | Machine shops | D | 4.5 |
| Peterbilt of Michigan, Inc. - Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo | Truck tractors, road, mercha | F | 4.5 |
| 018-00688 | Ann Arbor | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.5 |
| Sterling Heights | Sterling Heights | Physical therapy offices (e. | C | 4.5 |
| Yates Industries | Saint Clair Shores | Cylinders, fluid power, manu | D | 4.5 |
| Dean Transportation, Inc. - Muskegon-Laketon | Muskegon | Bus operation, school and em | C | 4.5 |
| Super Steel Treating | Warren | Burning metals and metal pro | D | 4.5 |
| Comstock Park | Comstock Park | Finish carpentry | D | 4.5 |
| Duncan Aviation - Battle Creek | Battle Creek | Aircraft maintenance and rep | C | 4.5 |
| LINC 4863 (Huber Logist. - M) | Detroit | Other Support Activities for | C | 4.5 |
| Decorative Panels International, Inc. | Alpena | Panels, hardwood plywood, ma | D | 4.5 |
| St Joseph's a Villa Center | Hamrramck | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 4.5 |
| Cooper Standard Industrial and Specialty | Spring Lake | Building materials (e.g., fa | D | 4.5 |
| 254850-Jenison Po | Jenison | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 4.5 |
| Meijer 243 | Clinton Twp | Supermarkets | D | 4.5 |
| Port City Castings Corp | Muskegon | Aluminum die-castings, unfin | D | 4.5 |
| 4535-1577 | Brighton | Retail/Home Furnishings | D | 4.5 |
| McGuirk Sand-Gravel, Inc. | Mt. Pleasant | Sewer main, pipe and connect | D | 4.5 |
| Gallagher Uniform | Battle Creek | Industrial uniform supply se | F | 4.5 |
| Romulus | Romulus | Wiring supplies merchant who | F | 4.5 |
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.