Employer · Michigan

218 - Kalamazoo

Portage, MI · ~126 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

218 - Kalamazoo runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

218 - Kalamazoo: 3.0 TCR = 90% of industry BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

218 - Kalamazoo safety composite

218 - Kalamazoo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.4

2016→2019

218 - Kalamazoo injury rate improved

218 - Kalamazoo's TCR fell 3.4 from 3.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.4 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=7.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Portage, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #32/103
  • PHOTO 2194 - Bismarck
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~126 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2194 - Bismarck (0.0 TCR gap)

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218 - Kalamazoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 218 - Kalamazoo averages 3.0 TCR (90% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

218 - Kalamazoo TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=7 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.4

Where 218 - Kalamazoo falls in its industry

4,991 industry establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 103 industry employers in Michigan.

218 - Kalamazoo (126 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 218 - Kalamazoo
218 - Kalamazoo (126 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

218 - Kalamazoo has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.0 1.8 4 0 0
2017 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2016 3.4 1.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · MI · Portage

4,991 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 2194 - Bismarck 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2303 - Lincoln SW 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2546 - Waukesha South 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 5228 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allied Power Services - DTE, Fermi Station 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE PK Contracting, LLC. Troy 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michigan 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pontiac Ceiling & Partition, LLC 126 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 DG Farms 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR West Plant 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sales - Harrah's Las Vegas 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Windsor WECO 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 216 - Governors Plaza 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE 358 - Round Lake 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE 161535-Chicago Cs District 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - Corporate 126 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.