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 258 of 328| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knauf Insulation Plant 11 | Albion | Manufacturer of Wool Fibergl | A | 1.1 |
| HTI Cybernetics | 40033 Mitchell Dr, Sterling Heights | Metal casting machinery and | A | 1.1 |
| ALD Thermal Treatment, Inc. | Port Huron | Heat treating metals and met | A | 1.1 |
| 8 Oakland Square | Troy | Department Store | A | 1.1 |
| Port Huron Hospitality Holdings, LLC | Port Huron | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 1.1 |
| Hope Network SE | Pontiac | Home Health Care Services | A | 1.1 |
| Ice Arena | Farmington Hills | Fitness and Recreational | A | 1.1 |
| Gogebic Ontonagon Head Start | Bessemer | Community meals, social serv | A | 1.1 |
| Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc. | Ann Arbor | Laboratory analytical optica | A | 1.1 |
| 4263-2864 | Northville | Hotels | A | 1.1 |
| Rapid Mold Removal | Lansing | Remediation services, enviro | A | 1.1 |
| D&D Building, Inc | Wyoming | Construction management, com | A | 1.1 |
| KJ Three Rivers | Three Rivers | Drill presses, woodworking-t | A | 1.1 |
| Western Wayne Center | Belleville | Electric Power Distribution | C | 1.1 |
| House of Hope | Standish | Group homes, intellectual an | A | 1.1 |
| Clark Construction Company | Lansing | - | A | 1.1 |
| Commerce Controls, Inc. | Novi | Control circuit relays, indu | A | 1.1 |
| Bornor Restoration Inc | Lansing | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 1.1 |
| Behler-Young Company - Grand Rapids | Grand Rapids | Central heating equipment, w | B | 1.1 |
| Atmosphere Heat Treat | Wixom | Hardening (i.e., heat treati | A | 1.1 |
| Detroit Chassis LLC | Detroit | Chassis, heavy truck, with o | A | 1.1 |
| Trenton South Engine Plant | Trenton | Motor Vehicle Gasoline Engin | A | 1.1 |
| Haerter Stamping | Grand Rapids | Job stampings, automotive, m | A | 1.1 |
| Ash Stevens Riverview | Riverview | Pharmaceutical preparations | A | 1.1 |
| Kenco Logistic Service MJN MI | Zeeland | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.1 |
| Parker Hannifin Corp - Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo | Aircraft assemblies, subasse | A | 1.1 |
| KSH - KUKA Systems N.A. LLC | Sterling Heights | Industrial robot cells manuf | A | 1.1 |
| Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood | Grand Rapids | Bookcases (except wood), off | A | 1.1 |
| Louisiana-Pacific Sagola | Sagola | OSB (oriented strandboard) m | A | 1.1 |
| Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum | Ann Arbor | Interactive museums | A | 1.1 |
| Sterling Technologies | Wixom | Control panels, electric pow | A | 1.1 |
| Unit #2992 | Burton | Retail | A | 1.1 |
| Boral Building Products | Metamora | Injection molding machinery | A | 1.1 |
| Wensco Belmont Michigan | Belmont | General merchandise, nondura | B | 1.1 |
| Wyoming 3750 Manufacturing Facility | Wyoming | Nuts, kernels and seeds, roa | A | 1.1 |
| Pontiac 121 | Pontiac | - | A | 1.1 |
| Bay County Waste Water Treatment Plant | Bay City | Sewage treatment plants or f | C | 1.1 |
| Dundee Engine Plant | Dundee | Manufacturing | A | 1.1 |
| De-Cal, Inc. | Warren | Mechanical contractors | A | 1.1 |
| 193 - Ludington | Ludington | Retail | A | 1.1 |
| Cooper Standard Leonard | Leonard | - | A | 1.1 |
| Llink Technologies | Brown City | Seats for public conveyances | A | 1.1 |
| Michigan Caterpillar Kalkaska | Kalkaska | Agricultural machinery and e | B | 1.1 |
| 1467 Rxo Express, LLC-1467 | Buchanan | General Freight Trucking, Lo | A | 1.1 |
| Lansing Surgery Center | Lansing | Freestanding ambulatory surg | A | 1.1 |
| RENK America LLC | Muskegon | Diesel and semidiesel engine | A | 1.1 |
| Wm 6843 | Coldwater | General Freight Trucking Lon | A | 1.1 |
| Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC - H4 | Kentwood | Breakfast cereals manufactur | A | 1.1 |
| Specialists in Rehabilitation Medicine | Rochester | MDs' (medical doctors, excep | A | 1.1 |
| Cortland | Highland Park | Community action service age | A | 1.1 |
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.