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 272 of 328| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPEC | Gaylord | Mechanical contractors | A | 0.7 |
| JI | Jackson | - | A | 0.7 |
| Caro - MI | Caro | Pumps (e.g., fuel, oil, wate | A | 0.7 |
| Meijer Store #237 | Warren | Superstores (i.e., food and | A | 0.7 |
| 2552-Constantine, MI (Monsanto Co.) | Constantine | Postharvest Crop Activities | A | 0.7 |
| 6443-569900 | Warren | Residential Intellectual and | A | 0.7 |
| Niles Plant Services, LLC | Bay City | Scaffold erecting and disman | A | 0.7 |
| Corporate Lab Research and Testing | Kentwood | Engineering research and dev | D | 0.7 |
| DeMaria | Novi | Construction management, ind | A | 0.7 |
| AG Manufacturing Inc. | Harbor Beach | Junction boxes, electrical w | A | 0.7 |
| MS Ultrasonic Technology, LLC- Howell, MI | Howell | Ultrasonic welding equipment | A | 0.7 |
| Motor City Electric Co. | Detroit | Electrical contractors | A | 0.7 |
| Lincoln Park 10101 | Lincoln Park | Plasma Center | A | 0.7 |
| McLaren Medical Management Inc - Flint | Flint | Physicians' (except mental h | A | 0.7 |
| Farmhouse | Montague | Commercial printing (except | A | 0.7 |
| 325 - Troy Mi Fas | Troy | Professional and commercial | A | 0.7 |
| RAM Construction Services | Livonia | Caulking (i.e., waterproofin | A | 0.7 |
| Delta Imports | Grand Rapids | New Car Dealers | A | 0.7 |
| Konoa dba Vande Bunte Eggs | Martin | Chicken egg production | A | 0.7 |
| Standard Lumber - Kitchens | Grand Rapids | Other Building Material Deal | A | 0.7 |
| Southside | Mio | Hose assemblies for fluid po | A | 0.7 |
| Liberty Transit LLC | Grand Rapids | Trucking, general freight, l | A | 0.7 |
| CPS Plant 1 | Clinton Township | Machine tools, metal forming | A | 0.7 |
| Zeeland Generation | Zeeland | Power generation, fossil fue | B | 0.7 |
| Paladin Ind. | Kentwood | Cabinets, wood office-type, | A | 0.7 |
| M.U.E. | Pontiac | Gas, natural, distribution | B | 0.7 |
| Shaw Electric/Shaw Systems & Integration | Southfield | Electrical, electrical wirin | A | 0.7 |
| Atlas Copco IAS | Auburn Hills | Pumps, industrial and commer | A | 0.7 |
| Central Michigan Paper co. | Ada | Fine paper, bulk, merchant w | A | 0.7 |
| SamsungSDI B1 | Auburn Hills | Automobile storage batteries | A | 0.7 |
| Farmington Early Childhood Center | Farmington Hills | Elementary schools | B | 0.7 |
| Sw-20730233-Fo Dtw - Detroit, Mi - Sw | Detroit | Transportation Air Carriers | A | 0.7 |
| Asco L.P. | Sandusky | Control valves, fluid power, | A | 0.7 |
| Hearthside Food Solutions - H2 | Grand Rapids | Pretzels (except soft) manuf | A | 0.7 |
| St. Clair Power Plant | East China Twsp | Power generation, fossil fue | B | 0.7 |
| DeWind One-Pass Trenching LLC | Zeeland | Dam construction | A | 0.7 |
| Trinity Health PACE | Livonia | Corporate offices | C | 0.7 |
| Munson Healthcare Ma | Manistee | - | A | 0.7 |
| Chrysler Headquarters and Technical Center (CTC) | Auburn Hills | Janitorial services | A | 0.7 |
| BASF Wyandotte | Wyandotte | Chemical (except petrochemic | A | 0.7 |
| MI Works - Saginaw | Saginaw | Vocational Rehabilitation Se | A | 0.7 |
| Grand Traverse Stamping | Traverse City | Motor vehicle metal parts st | A | 0.7 |
| Utilities Instrumentation Service | Dexter | Electrical, electrical wirin | A | 0.7 |
| Michigan Caterpillar Kalamazoo | Portage | Agricultural machinery and e | A | 0.7 |
| Ben's Supercenter Inc | Brown City | Grocery stores | A | 0.7 |
| C3 Industries Inc - HQ | Ann Arbor | Bedding plant growing (excep | A | 0.7 |
| Taylor Mi Sales Center | Taylor | Private warehousing and stor | A | 0.7 |
| Universal Piping Industries | Troy | Plumbing and heating contrac | A | 0.7 |
| US - Branch Network : 0232 | Madison Heights | Merchant Wholesalers, Durabl | A | 0.7 |
| thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics - Auburn Hills | Auburn Hills | Plastics basic shapes (e.g., | A | 0.7 |
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.