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 229 of 328| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elite Environmental, Inc. | Marine City | Asbestos abatement services | B | 1.9 |
| Motion Dynamics Corporation | Fruitport | - | B | 1.9 |
| Excel Payroll Services Inc | Romulus | Payroll processing services | F | 1.9 |
| Brookdale Grand Blanc Assisted Living | Holly | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 1.9 |
| 2563 Web41 | Kalamazoo | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 1.9 |
| 31 | Wyandotte | Retail automotive tires, acc | C | 1.9 |
| Mercy Health VNS MSK | Muskegon | Home health care agencies | A | 1.9 |
| DTE Electric Company - Belle River | East China Twp | Power and Communication Line | B | 1.9 |
| Meijer 109 | Commerce | Retailers' associations | C | 1.9 |
| Mack Engine Plant | Detroit | Assembly line rebuilding of | A | 1.9 |
| Meijer #65 | Shelby Township | Supermarkets | B | 1.9 |
| Huhtamaki Coleman Operations | Coleman | Awnings, rigid plastics or f | B | 1.9 |
| Merrill | Sterling Heights | Doors and door frames, plast | B | 1.9 |
| Macomb SC | Mt. Clemens | Distribution of natural gas | D | 1.9 |
| Jack Dykstra Excavating Inc | Grand Rapids | Excavating, earthmoving, or | B | 1.9 |
| Anlaan Corporation | Grand Haven | Repair, highway, road, stree | B | 1.9 |
| Koppers Hubbell | Hubbell | Copper compounds, not specif | B | 1.9 |
| Oerlikon Metco - Plymouth | Plymouth | Powder, nonferrous metals (e | B | 1.9 |
| Regency at Lansing West | Lansing | Nursing Care Facilities Skil | A | 1.9 |
| LAC St Clair Pool/Marina | St Clair Shores | Community recreation program | B | 1.9 |
| TRMI, Inc. | Battle Creek | Automotive electrical switch | B | 1.9 |
| Goodwill Main Campus | Traverse City | Shelters, homeless | A | 1.9 |
| 433 - Flint | Flint | - | B | 1.9 |
| DEMI | Taylor | Other Miscellaneous Durable | C | 1.9 |
| The Learning Tree - Howell | Howell | Child day care centers | A | 1.9 |
| Orchard Lake | Orchard Lake | Apparel stores, used clothin | B | 1.9 |
| Zatkoff Seals - Grand Rapids (Branch 3) | Grand Rapids | Packing materials merchant w | C | 1.9 |
| Meijer Store 48 | Bay City | Supermarkets | B | 1.9 |
| Jim Causley Buick GMC | Clinton Township | Automobile dealers, new only | B | 1.9 |
| Walker Automation & Assembly (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 3) | Walker | Job stampings, automotive, m | A | 1.9 |
| 027 - Carpenter Rd Ypsilanti | Ypsilanti | Retail | B | 1.9 |
| Fairfield Inn and Suites - New Buffalo | New Buffalo | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 1.9 |
| Crossroads Mobile Maintenance - MI | Reed City | Automotive repair and replac | C | 1.9 |
| Lanzen Inc. | Romeo | Air cowls, sheet metal (exce | B | 1.9 |
| Ferrous Lonyo | Detroit | Metal scrap and waste mercha | C | 1.9 |
| Hampton Manor of Commerce | Walled Lake | Homes for the aged without n | A | 1.9 |
| Weathergard Window Company Inc | Farmington | Windows and window frames, v | B | 1.9 |
| Ryder Highland Park | Highland Park | Commercial and industrial ma | C | 1.9 |
| S.A. Morman & Co. | Grand Rapids | Building materials supply de | B | 1.9 |
| CPM - Century Extrusion | Traverse City | Precision turned product man | B | 1.9 |
| Mersen USA GS Corp - Bay City | Bay City | Brush blocks, carbon or mold | B | 1.9 |
| 6723 Holland | Holland | Commercial Printing (except | B | 1.9 |
| Edw. C. Levy Co. - Detroit Plant 3 | Ecorse | Blast furnace slag processin | B | 1.9 |
| Asahi Kasei Plastics- Fowlerville | Fowlerville | Custom compounding (i.e., bl | B | 1.9 |
| Graduate Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor | Hospitality | B | 1.9 |
| Michigan Cat Lansing | Lansing | Construction machinery and e | C | 1.9 |
| TownePlace Suites Dearborn | Dearborn | Hotel management services (i | B | 1.9 |
| 20759 Linden MI | Linden | Bus operation, school and em | A | 1.9 |
| BorgWarner | Cadillac | Gas tanks assembled, automot | A | 1.9 |
| Clariant Plastics & Coatings USA Inc. (Albion facility) | Albion | Custom compounding (i.e., bl | B | 1.9 |
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.