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 180 of 328| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sturgis Molded Products | Sturgis | Injection molding machinery | C | 3.1 |
| PLYMOUTH EmpWorkCtrCd 30000887 | Plymouth | Confectionery Merchant Whole | D | 3.1 |
| Great Lates Water Authority- Southwest Water Treatment Plant | Detroit | Water treatment and distribu | F | 3.1 |
| Skymint Silo59 Production Facility | Lansing | Herb farming, grown under co | B | 3.1 |
| Northern Tool Sales and Service Co. | Farmington Hills | Machine tool attachments and | C | 3.1 |
| Sault Sainte Marie, Mi #03079 | Sault Sainte Ma | Hardware Store | C | 3.1 |
| 1574 D&W -Holland, MI PREVO'S #38-3345860 | Holland | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.1 |
| 42251a - Battle Creek | Battle Creek | Confectionery Merchant Whole | D | 3.1 |
| Vesco Oil Corporation- Grand Rapids | Grand Rapids | Petroleum and petroleum prod | D | 3.1 |
| Pridgeon and Clay - 50 CG | Grand Rapids | Job stampings, automotive, m | B | 3.1 |
| Medspeed Detoit | Warren | Courier services | A | 3.1 |
| SFS Saint Paul-238STP | Saint Paul | Support Activities for Air T | B | 3.1 |
| Caretel Inns of Brighton | Brighton | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 3.1 |
| Haworth Inc-Flooring | Kentwood | Floor tile, ceramic, manufac | C | 3.1 |
| Guardian Industries -Carleton | Carleton | Flat glass (e.g., float, pla | C | 3.1 |
| GMI (Vi-Chem) | Grand Rapids | Custom compounding (i.e., bl | C | 3.1 |
| West Michigan Poured Walls, Inc. | Zeeland | Concrete pouring | C | 3.1 |
| B50 | Livonia | Engineering services | F | 3.1 |
| Wayne County Airport Authority | Detroit | Airports, civil, operation a | B | 3.1 |
| Bell Physician Practices | Ishpeming | Family physicians' offices ( | C | 3.1 |
| DMC Harper University Hospital | Detroit | - | B | 3.1 |
| 611 Kalamazoo West | Kalamazoo | Department Store | C | 3.1 |
| AAM-Oxford Manufacturing Facility | Oxford | Press forgings made from pur | C | 3.1 |
| Anthology of Novi | Novi | Assisted Living Facilities f | C | 3.1 |
| Big Lots Store #490 LAPEER, MI | Lapeer | Retail Other | C | 3.1 |
| Fire Station III | Farmington Hills | Fire Protection | C | 3.1 |
| Sharp Transit LLC Webberville MI | Webberville | Trucking, general freight, l | B | 3.1 |
| 2866 | Okemos | All Other General Merchandis | C | 3.1 |
| Cascade Die Casting Group - Great Lakes | Sparta | Aluminum die-castings, unfin | C | 3.1 |
| Giannetti Contracting Corporation | Sterling Heights | Distribution line, sewer and | C | 3.1 |
| Ottawa County | West Olive | County supervisors' and exec | C | 3.1 |
| Flint - KUKA Assembly and Test Corp. | Flint | Transmissions and parts, aut | B | 3.1 |
| Hilite Whitehall | Whitehall | Control valves, fluid power, | C | 3.1 |
| Allegan MI | Allegan | Paratransit transportation s | B | 3.1 |
| Michigan Valley Irrigation II | Mcbride | Agricultural machinery and e | D | 3.1 |
| Moline MI | Wayland | Farm Supplies Merchant Whole | D | 3.1 |
| Herbruck's | Saranac | chicken egg production | B | 3.1 |
| Industrial Containers Services LLC | Grand Rapids | Reconditioning shipping barr | D | 3.1 |
| MI012 | Livonia | Service Establishment Equipm | D | 3.1 |
| Thumb Plastics, Inc. | Bad Axe | Motor vehicle moldings and e | C | 3.1 |
| Hazel Park Mi Sales Center | Hazel Park | Private warehousing and stor | B | 3.1 |
| Ann Arbor MI | Ann Arbor | 423420 Office Equipment Merc | D | 3.1 |
| 338 | Allen Park | snack and nonalcoholic bever | C | 3.1 |
| Cox Trucking Inc. | Newport | General freight trucking, lo | B | 3.1 |
| Pavement Maintenance Systems, LLC | Imlay City | Oil field road construction | C | 3.1 |
| Structural Plastics Corp | Holly | Shelving, commercial, mercha | D | 3.1 |
| Unit #1166 | Dearborn | Retail | C | 3.1 |
| Gavilon Grain - Carrollton | Carrollton | Grain elevators merchant who | D | 3.1 |
| Yukon Mfg. Corp. - a div. of Nor-Tech Industrial Corp. | Alpena | Belt conveyor systems manufa | C | 3.1 |
| 4186-05047 | Canton | Dollar Stores | C | 3.1 |
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.