Employer · Michigan

0604 - Kalamazoo

Portage, MI · ~155 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0604 - Kalamazoo runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

0604 - Kalamazoo: 6.0 TCR = 178% of industry BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0604 - Kalamazoo safety composite

0604 - Kalamazoo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

0604 - Kalamazoo: 4.4 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2021

0604 - Kalamazoo's TCR rose 3.3 from 4.4 in 2019 to 7.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Portage, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 178% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #97/109
  • PHOTO 1128 - New Port Richey
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~155 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1128 - New Port Richey (0.0 TCR gap)

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0604 - Kalamazoo in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows 0604 - Kalamazoo averages 6.0 TCR (178% of the industry BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

0604 - Kalamazoo TCR series: 2019=4.4 · 2021=7.7 · BLS 3.4

Where 0604 - Kalamazoo falls in its industry

2,917 industry establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #97 safest of 109 industry employers in Michigan.

0604 - Kalamazoo (155 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0604 - Kalamazoo
0604 - Kalamazoo (155 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

0604 - Kalamazoo has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2021 7.7 5.1 2 4 0
2019 4.4 4.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · MI · Portage

2,917 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 136 employers in Portage, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 1128 - New Port Richey 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0911 - Fresno North 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 71326 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm and Fleet of Kankakee 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alma SC 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Detroit 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE GM Wood Products 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evergreen Packaging - Kalamazoo 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Instruments - 1941 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Medical 2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summit Polymers, Inc. 1,619 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Corporation Shared Services 768 FTE
NAT-TCR Anderson Regional Medical Center South 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 5175 Fresenius Medical Care 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Timber Mantachie 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cutting Edge Glass #789 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE MIA-SAFS 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Binghamton Univ-Collegiate Ctr 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE A.O.Smith North America Corp 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE 14 - Bainbridge 155 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2021, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.