TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.3 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Michigan workplace safety
How 16,393 OSHA-reporting employers across Michigan compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 14,419 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 16,393
- Employers
- 5.3
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 330,220
- Injuries (all)
- 202
- Fatalities (all)
Michigan vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
16,393 9th of 54 higher than 45 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Michigan's 14,419 rated 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 · rated subset
- 14,419
- rated employers
- 16,393
- all reporting employers
- 330,220
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 16,393 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 16% B · 13% C · 27% D · 20% F · 23%
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.
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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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.3 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 14,419 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
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 213 of 328| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit Assembly Complex Jefferson | Detroit | Manufacturing | B | 2.3 |
| Van Kempen Electric Inc | Walker | Electric contracting | C | 2.3 |
| Holiday Inn Express, Grandville | Grandville | Hotels, resort, without casi | B | 2.3 |
| DeGrandchamps Blueberry Farm | South Haven | Blueberry farming | B | 2.3 |
| Gaylord | Gaylord | Automobile dealers, new only | B | 2.3 |
| Red Arrow Dairy | Grand Rapids | Milk production, dairy cattl | B | 2.3 |
| 8462_19264 | Saranac | - | A | 2.3 |
| Diamabrush LLC | Sterling Heights | Manufacturer of Advanced Abr | B | 2.3 |
| Dakkota Integrated Systems Sterling Heights | Sterling Heights | Automobiles assembling on ch | B | 2.3 |
| 1990 FAMILY FARE, Hastings PREVO'S #38-3345860 | Hastings | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 2.3 |
| DTW-M | Romulus | Postal stations operated on | B | 2.3 |
| CTC Pilot Plant | Auburn Hills | Automobile Manufacturing - P | B | 2.3 |
| Mercy Health Partners - Lakeshore Campus | Shelby | - | A | 2.3 |
| Adrian, MI | Adrian | Cheese, natural (except cott | B | 2.3 |
| Michigan Department of Corrections - Eastern District Probation | Detroit | Probation offices, publicly | B | 2.3 |
| Chippewa County Road Commission | Sault Ste Marie | Road construction | C | 2.3 |
| Knoll, Inc. - Grand Rapids | Grand Rapids | Furniture (except wood), off | B | 2.3 |
| Northern Boiler & Mechanical Contractors, Inc. | Muskegon | Mechanical contractors | C | 2.3 |
| Grand River Construction | Hudsonville | Foundation, building, poured | C | 2.3 |
| Oakley - Warren | Warren | Wheels (i.e., rims), automot | A | 2.3 |
| 231 - Southfield | Southfield | Retail | B | 2.3 |
| Holiday Inn | Midland | Hotels, resort, without casi | B | 2.3 |
| AFC-Holcroft | Wixom | Ceramic kilns and furnaces m | B | 2.3 |
| SMW Manufacturing, Taylor, MI | Taylor | Bolts, metal, manufacturing | B | 2.3 |
| Life Enrichment Academy | Bloomfield Hills | Habilitation job counseling | B | 2.3 |
| Henry Ford Woodhaven | Woodhaven | Community health centers and | B | 2.3 |
| CuraVitae | Ann Arbor | Home health care agencies | A | 2.3 |
| Gardner White - Southfield | Southfield | Furniture Stores | B | 2.3 |
| 0765 Lowe S of Kalamazoo Mi | Kalamazoo | Homecenter | B | 2.3 |
| St. Joseph's, a Villa Center: Colonial Nursing Center, LLC | Hamtramck | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 2.3 |
| 8381_20085 | Menominee | - | B | 2.3 |
| Spartan Steel Coating | Monroe | Metal Coating Engraving exce | B | 2.3 |
| R Hirt Jr CO | Detroit | General-line groceries merch | C | 2.3 |
| Spectrum Health Kelsey Hospital | Lakeview | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 2.3 |
| Allmed-Michigan | Westland | Appliances, surgical, mercha | C | 2.3 |
| Progressive Dynamics Enterprises LCC | Marshall | Power converter units (i.e., | B | 2.3 |
| Detroit - Gleaners Community Food Bank | Detroit | Community Food Services | B | 2.3 |
| County of Midland | Midland | Controllers' and comptroller | B | 2.3 |
| Apollo Center | Highland | Primary schools | D | 2.3 |
| WSP Taylor | Taylor | Steel Product Manufacturing | B | 2.3 |
| Short's Brewing Company | Bellaire | Breweries | B | 2.3 |
| Canton, Mi | Canton | Other Direct Selling Establi | B | 2.3 |
| Elzinga & Volkers Inc. | Holland | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 2.3 |
| Port City Custom Plastics, Mirror Image Tool and Port City Group Corporate | Muskegon | Balloons, plastics, manufact | B | 2.3 |
| Porter Corp | Holland, Mi | Buildings, prefabricated met | B | 2.3 |
| Lakeland Personal Care Services | Benton Harbor | Home health care agencies | A | 2.3 |
| Livonia SC | Livonia | Distribution of natural gas | D | 2.2 |
| Monroe Terminal | Monroe | Transfer (trucking) services | A | 2.2 |
| Extol, Inc. | Zeeland | Assembly machines manufactur | B | 2.2 |
| Kalamazoo Logistic Center | Kalamazoo | General warehousing and stor | A | 2.2 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Michigan: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.3 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (16,393 here).
Look up a Michigan employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.