Employer · Michigan

611 - Kalamazoo West

Kalamazoo, MI · ~97 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

611 - Kalamazoo West runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

611 - Kalamazoo West: 4.6 TCR = 134% of industry BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

611 - Kalamazoo West safety composite

611 - Kalamazoo West scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−5.6

2016→2022

611 - Kalamazoo West injury rate improved

611 - Kalamazoo West's TCR fell 5.6 from 5.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.6 · 2017=6.2 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=2.7 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Kalamazoo, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 134% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #85/109
  • PHOTO 71491
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 71491 (0.0 TCR gap)

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611 - Kalamazoo West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 611 - Kalamazoo West averages 4.6 TCR (134% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

611 - Kalamazoo West TCR series: 2016=5.6 · 2017=6.2 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=2.7 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.4

Where 611 - Kalamazoo West falls in its industry

2,917 industry establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #85 safest of 109 industry employers in Michigan.

611 - Kalamazoo West (97 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 611 - Kalamazoo West
611 - Kalamazoo West (97 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

611 - Kalamazoo West has fewer 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2019 6.4 0.0 3 0 0
2018 6.5 2.2 3 0 0
2017 6.2 0.0 3 0 0
2016 5.6 5.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · MI · Kalamazoo

2,917 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 353 employers in Kalamazoo, 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 71491 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 71327 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 700 - Oceanside-CA 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1415 - Encinitas 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE High Lean Pork/Huron Pork 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cargill Hersey Michigan 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEMCO Energy Gas Company - Headquarters 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wm. R. Curtis 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bronson Methodist Hospital 4,909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pfizer Kalamazoo - Portage Road 3,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Instruments 2,240 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-MIKAL1 2,103 FTE
NAT-TCR 700 - Oceanside-CA 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Village of Northbrook Police Department 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1415 - Encinitas 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Food City Store #650 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 603 - Riverside-CA 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE 760 - Petaluma 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE 763 - Vallejo 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE 775 - West Jordan 97 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, 2020, 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.