Employer · Michigan

8538_19693

Kalamazoo, MI · ~42 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.5
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

8538_19693 runs at 354% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

8538_19693: 13.5 TCR = 354% of industry BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

8538_19693 safety composite

8538_19693 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

8538_19693: 12.4 → 14.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2024

8538_19693's TCR rose 2.1 from 12.4 in 2023 to 14.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624310 · Kalamazoo, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.5 · 354% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #109/117
  • PHOTO Coast Guard Academy
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coast Guard Academy (0.0 TCR gap)

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8538_19693 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 8538_19693 averages 13.5 TCR (354% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

8538_19693 TCR series: 2023=12.4 · 2024=14.5 · BLS 3.8

Where 8538_19693 falls in its industry

1,455 industry establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #109 safest of 117 industry employers in Michigan.

8538_19693 (42 employees, TCR 13.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 8538_19693
8538_19693 (42 employees, TCR 13.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

8538_19693 has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 14.5 4.8 5 1 0
2023 12.4 0.0 0 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624310 · MI · Kalamazoo

1,455 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 Coast Guard Academy 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ventureLINX- Mud Pike 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Napa Personnel Systems 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 222 - Wyoming Store 13.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE General Meter 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gas Construction Jackson 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pennings & Sons 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE CR Meyer - Muskegon 42 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 Indiana Wheel Company, LLC 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Customer First Logistics LLC 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bell Business Development LLC 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DeepLand LLC 13.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rafter 3 Feedyard 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carter Lumber 133 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Refractory Specialties Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ventura HQ 42 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.

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

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