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 233 of 328| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2967-MI71 | Clawson | Relay and Industrial Control | B | 1.8 |
| 42241f - Mt Pleasant | Mt Pleasant | Confectionery Merchant Whole | C | 1.8 |
| SKF USA Inc. - Muskegon | Muskegon | Manufacturing - Ball Bearing | B | 1.8 |
| #23 Art Van Westland | Westland | Furniture and appliance stor | B | 1.8 |
| Meijer Store 245 | Hartland | Superstores (i.e., food and | B | 1.8 |
| Henry Schein Dental Grand Rapids Center | Walker | Dental equipment and supplie | C | 1.8 |
| Schupan Industrial Recycling Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo | Metal scrap and waste mercha | C | 1.8 |
| Belle River Power Plant | East China Twsp | Power generation, fossil fue | D | 1.8 |
| Leppinks Belding | Belding | Supermarkets | B | 1.8 |
| Chesterfield (Mt Clemens) MFG (EF, AUTO) | Chesterfield | Awnings, rigid plastics or f | B | 1.8 |
| Ags 18.5 | Sterling Heights | Bumpers and bumperettes asse | A | 1.8 |
| WYOMING | Wyoming | All Other Miscellaneous Stor | B | 1.8 |
| MAPLE Hill Auto Group | Kalamazoo | Automotive Dealerships | B | 1.8 |
| 243 - Clinton Twp | Clinton Twp | Retail | B | 1.8 |
| MacAllister Rental Macomb | Macomb | Bulldozer rental or leasing | D | 1.8 |
| Ndx Nelson | Rochester Hills | Dental Laboratories | B | 1.8 |
| Atlanta Maint Garage - Mdot | Atlanta | STATE GOVERNMENT | B | 1.8 |
| Weingartz Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor | Power equipment stores, outd | B | 1.8 |
| Genesis Seating | Grand Rapids | Chairs (except wood), office | B | 1.8 |
| American Battery Solutions | Lake Orion | Lithium batteries, primary, | B | 1.8 |
| Busch's Inc 1205 | Novi | Grocery stores | B | 1.8 |
| The Learning Tree Child Care Center North | Livonia | Child day care centers | A | 1.8 |
| 255099-Customer Care Center - Mi | Troy | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 1.8 |
| Sodexo at Gratiot Medical Center-Food | Alma | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.8 |
| Kendall Electric - EGRS | Grand Rapids | Alarm apparatus, electric, m | C | 1.8 |
| Northern Lakes Community Mental Health-G | Grayling | Community social service pro | B | 1.8 |
| Northwestern Michigan College | Traverse City | Secondary schools offering b | D | 1.8 |
| AHB Tooling & Machinery, Inc. | Saginaw | Metalworking machinery and e | C | 1.8 |
| Meijer Store 35 | Taylor | Superstores (i.e., food and | B | 1.8 |
| City of Grand Rapids-Traffic Safety | Grand Rapids | Electric power distribution | D | 1.8 |
| Indian Summer-Michigan Food Processors | Ludington | Fruits, canned, manufacturin | B | 1.8 |
| Bluewater Thermal Solutions - Coldwater | Coldwater | Brazing (i.e., hardening) me | B | 1.8 |
| Administration | Bangor | - | A | 1.8 |
| Blastek LLC | Shelbyville | Sandblasting, building exter | B | 1.8 |
| LO Agronomy | Lake Odessa | 424910 Farm Supplies Merchan | B | 1.8 |
| Uia Pro Ofc - Dhhs | Pontiac | STATE GOVERNMENT | B | 1.8 |
| Ace Saginaw Paving | Flint | Asphalt paving (i.e., highwa | B | 1.8 |
| A.F. Smith Electric, Inc. | Ypsilanti | Electrical contractors | B | 1.8 |
| Environmental Wood Solutions | Lake Orion | Waste materials merchant who | B | 1.8 |
| 2726 Traverse City | Traverse City | Home Centers | B | 1.8 |
| Inline Electric and Controls | Holland | Electrical contractors | B | 1.8 |
| Camfil - Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo | Filters, air-conditioner, ma | B | 1.8 |
| Sodexo at Cobo Conference Exhibition Cent | Detroit | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.8 |
| Kautex Textron Detroit | Detroit | Gas tanks assembled, automot | A | 1.8 |
| Concentric 1585 | Saginaw | Health program administratio | B | 1.8 |
| Unit # 0708 | Benton Harbor | Retail | B | 1.8 |
| Orion | Orion Twp | Doors and door frames, plast | B | 1.8 |
| Great Lakes Western Star | Monroe | Automobile merchant wholesal | B | 1.8 |
| Henry Ford Livonia | Livonia | Clinics/centers of health pr | A | 1.8 |
| Senior Resources of West Michigan | Muskegon | Home care of elderly, non-me | A | 1.8 |
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.