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 62 of 328| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W. S. Townsend Co./DBA MKD Kitchen and Bath | Marshall | Apartment building construct | F | 7.8 |
| Cotterman Company - Michigan Division | Croswell | Ladders, portable metal, man | F | 7.8 |
| Meritor | Livonia | Assembly of Transfer Cases | D | 7.8 |
| 6319 | Kentwood | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.8 |
| HF Optimeyes Taylor Super | Taylor | Medical Center | F | 7.8 |
| Freudenthal Home-Based Health Care | St. Joseph | Home health agencies | D | 7.8 |
| E & L Development, Inc. | Macomb Township | Artesian well construction | F | 7.8 |
| Aluminum Blanking Company, INC. | Pontiac | Aluminum sheet made by flat | F | 7.8 |
| MIF004 | Burton | Tire Dealers | F | 7.8 |
| 251530-Caro Po | Caro | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.8 |
| Heather Hills ALF | Grand Rapids | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 7.8 |
| American Red Cross - 39810 Grand River | Novi | - | F | 7.8 |
| Intelligent Machine Solutions, Inc. | Norton Shores | Machinery and equipment, lar | F | 7.8 |
| The DECC Company | Grand Rapids | Motor vehicle paints manufac | F | 7.8 |
| Schwab Industries, Inc | Shelby Township | Cutting dies, metalworking, | F | 7.8 |
| Panel Processing of Coldwater Inc. | Coldwater | Fixtures, store display, man | F | 7.8 |
| Migri - Grand Rapids | Grand Rapids | General Freight Trucking, Lo | D | 7.8 |
| Chat of Mi. | Romulus | Preparing goods for transpor | D | 7.8 |
| GFL Environmental Brown City Hauling | Brown City | Solid Waste Collection | F | 7.8 |
| Heartland Health Care Center - Sterling Heights | Sterling Heights | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 7.8 |
| Covenant Child Care Center | Saginaw | Child day care centers | F | 7.8 |
| Clare Public Schools* | Clare | - | F | 7.8 |
| Lakeshore Glass & Metals, LLC | Zeeland | Glazing contractors | F | 7.7 |
| Hastings Fiber Glass Products | Hastings | Awnings, rigid plastics or f | F | 7.7 |
| MI-GAYLO02-Gaylord - MI - Trans | Gaylord | - | F | 7.7 |
| Bay Metropolitan Transportation Authority | Bay City | Bus services, urban and subu | D | 7.7 |
| Saginaw City Det Center | Saginaw | Home nursing services, priva | F | 7.7 |
| Medilodge of Rochester Hills | Rochester Hills | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 7.7 |
| Ludington State Park - Dnr | Ludington | STATE GOVERNMENT | F | 7.7 |
| Mennel Milling Dowagiac | Dowagiac | Wheat flour manufacturing | F | 7.7 |
| Small electrical component manufacturer | Traverse City | Fractional horsepower electr | F | 7.7 |
| Henry Ford Hospital | Detroit | General medical and surgical | C | 7.7 |
| Fostrian Court | Flushing | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 7.7 |
| Taco Bell - #4084 | Alma | Fast-food restaurants | F | 7.7 |
| Advance Poured Walls | Kalamazoo | Footing and foundation concr | F | 7.7 |
| Excel Electric, Inc. (Michigan) | Grandville | Electrical contractors | F | 7.7 |
| Michigan Freeze Pack | Hart | Vegetables, frozen, manufact | F | 7.7 |
| Kamps Pallets Potterville | Charlotte | Pallet containers, wood or w | F | 7.7 |
| Acme Abrasives | Warren | Abrasive products manufactur | F | 7.7 |
| Shop 1 | Auburn Hills | Machine shops | F | 7.7 |
| 0586 Manheim Detroit 600 Will Carleton Rd | Carleton | Automobile and Other Motor V | F | 7.7 |
| Harding's Marketplace #423 | Portage | Food (i.e., groceries) store | F | 7.7 |
| Father Murray, a Villa Center: Father Murray Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC | Centerline | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 7.7 |
| Haveman Electrical Services, Inc. | Holland | Electrical contractors | F | 7.7 |
| Lansing Plant - 06 | Lansing | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | F | 7.7 |
| Airtec Corporation | Highland Park | Architectural metalwork manu | F | 7.7 |
| Pioneer Metal Finishing Monroe | Monroe | Plating metals and metal pro | F | 7.7 |
| Babbitts Powersports | Norton Shores | Recreational vehicle (RV) pa | F | 7.7 |
| Covenant Living of the Great Lakes | Grand Rapids | Continuing Care Retirement C | F | 7.7 |
| D & S Machine Repair, Inc. | Hastings | Machine tools repair and mai | F | 7.7 |
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.