Department Store · Michigan

611 Kalamazoo West

Kalamazoo, MI · ~65 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

611 Kalamazoo West runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Department Store workplace, earning a grade C.

611 Kalamazoo West: 3.1 TCR = 91% of Department Store BLS 3.4 · 2y 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 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

611 Kalamazoo West: 2.8 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

611 Kalamazoo West's TCR rose 0.5 from 2.8 in 2023 to 3.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Kalamazoo, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 91% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #53/109
  • PHOTO 513 - Preston Highway
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 513 - Preston Highway (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 3.1 TCR (91% of the Department Store BLS benchmark).

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

611 Kalamazoo West TCR series: 2023=2.8 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 611 Kalamazoo West falls in its industry

2,917 Department Store establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #53 safest of 109 Department Store employers in Michigan.

611 Kalamazoo West (65 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 (65 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Department Store 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
2024 3.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · MI · Kalamazoo

2,917 Department Store 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 513 - Preston Highway 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 71034 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 71089 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 71693 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ridgeview Orchards 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE PG Manufacturing 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marquette Board of Light and Power 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE SunGlo 65 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 Seabrook 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 06013-06-06-FRESNO 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 06008-06-06-PASCO 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 06003-06-06-YAKIMA 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arnold Machine Inc. 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altium Packaging - Atlanta 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE UFP Mid Atlantic 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Casual Living Unlimited 65 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.