Mail and Parcel Delivery · Michigan

252600-Dowagiac Po

Name: 252600-Dowagiac Po Workplace Safety Data
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Dowagiac, MI · ~25 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.9
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

252600-Dowagiac Po runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mail and Parcel Delivery workplace, earning a grade D.

252600-Dowagiac Po: 6.9 TCR = 153% of Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

252600-Dowagiac Po safety composite

252600-Dowagiac Po scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 6.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers
DART rate: D 5.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

252600-Dowagiac Po held a steady TCR band

252600-Dowagiac Po's TCR held near 0.1 from 5.0 in 2017 to 5.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.0 · 2018=5.0 · 2019=4.3 · 2021=14.9 · 2022=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 491110 · Dowagiac, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.9 · 153% of ind

DART 5.1 DART
RANK #144/464
PHOTO GARY_1436184
BOOK 5y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GARY_1436184 (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.9
GARY_1436184

6.9
LANCASTER_1369

6.9
JACKSONVILLE A

6.9
SOUTH_1382286

6.9

What this shows 252600-Dowagiac Po averages 6.9 TCR (153% of the Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS benchmark).

252600-Dowagiac Po TCR series: 2017=5 · 2018=5 · 2019=4.3 · 2021=14.9 · 2022=5.1 · BLS 4.5

Where 252600-Dowagiac Po falls in its industry

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #144 safest of 464 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers in Michigan.

252600-Dowagiac Po (25 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8

252600-Dowagiac Po has fewer employees than the Mail and Parcel Delivery median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.8. 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
2022	5.1	5.1	1	0
2021	14.9	14.9	2	1
2019	4.3	0.0	1	0
2018	5.0	5.0	1	0
2017	5.0	5.0	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

491110 · MI · Dowagiac

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 22 employers in Dowagiac, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	GARY_1436184	GARY, IN	6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	LANCASTER_1369779	LANCASTER, OH	6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	JACKSONVILLE ARLINGTON_1353362	JACKSONVILLE, FL	6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SOUTH_1382286	ARLINGTON, VA	6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Hazel Park	HAZEL PARK	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bayside Best Beans LLC.	SEBEWAING	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Tri-County Electric- Blanchard	BLANCHARD	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wastewater Treatment Plant	MONROE	25 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LADD, INC	Dowagiac	522 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Dowagiac Campus	Dowagiac	405 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Creative Foam	Dowagiac	260 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Creative Foam - Dowagiac	Dowagiac	256 FTE
NAT-TCR	170638-Bloomfield Po	Bloomfield, IN	6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	208428-Winchester Po	Winchester, KY	6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	476110-Music City Annex	Nashville, TN	6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	049675-Wynne Po	Wynne, AR	6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	183744-Grinnell Po	Grinnell, IA	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	170330-Attica Po	Attica, IN	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	178657-Tell City Po	Tell City, IN	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	568600-Waterford Po	Waterford, WI	25 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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