Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard · Michigan

Arvco Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo, MI · ~207 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Arvco Kalamazoo runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade F.

Arvco Kalamazoo: 7.8 TCR = 238% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Arvco Kalamazoo safety composite

Arvco Kalamazoo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Arvco Kalamazoo: 7.0 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2023

Arvco Kalamazoo's TCR rose 1.6 from 7.0 in 2022 to 8.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Kalamazoo, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 238% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #53/60
  • PHOTO SYRACUSE, NY
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~207 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SYRACUSE, NY (0.1 TCR gap)

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Arvco Kalamazoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Arvco Kalamazoo averages 7.8 TCR (238% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Arvco Kalamazoo TCR series: 2022=7 · 2023=8.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Arvco Kalamazoo falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

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 60 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Michigan.

Arvco Kalamazoo (207 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Arvco Kalamazoo
Arvco Kalamazoo (207 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Arvco Kalamazoo has more employees than the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2023 8.6 6.8 16 3 0
2022 7.0 5.2 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · MI · Kalamazoo

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard 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 SYRACUSE, NY 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GA 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt (Love Box) LLC - Lincoln 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper - Lexington Container 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Walters Gardens Inc 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bergstrom Operating Co. dba Thornton and Grooms 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE ADAC Automotive, Inc. - Olthoff Plant 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paladin Attachments 207 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 Homeland 153 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tiger 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1203 EDGEWOOD, MD 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DYX2 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Naturex Inc 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newburgh #198 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Bus Lines Inc. 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Irvine Hq Ca 207 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: 2023, 2022. 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.