Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Michigan

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake, LLC - Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo, MI · ~21 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake, LLC - Kalamazoo runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake, LLC - Kalamazoo: 2.8 TCR = 52% of Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake, LLC - Kalamazoo safety composite

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake, LLC - Kalamazoo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

−9.7

2016→2020

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake, LLC - Kalamazoo injury rate improved

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake, LLC - Kalamazoo's TCR fell 9.7 from 9.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.7 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336340 · Kalamazoo, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 52% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/16
  • PHOTO Mando America Corpor…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mando America Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake, LLC - Kalamazoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake, LLC - Kalamazoo averages 2.8 TCR (52% of the Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake, LLC - Kalamazoo TCR series: 2016=9.7 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 5.4

Where Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake, LLC - Kalamazoo falls in its industry

133 Brake and brake parts, automot establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 16 Brake and brake parts, automot employers in Michigan.

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake, LLC - Kalamazoo (21 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake, LLC - Kalamazoo
Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake, LLC - Kalamazoo (21 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake, LLC - Kalamazoo has fewer employees than the Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2016 9.7 9.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336340 · MI · Kalamazoo

133 Brake and brake parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing 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 Mando America Corporation 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Piston Automotive 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TI GROUP AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CARTERSVILLE 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TI Fluid Systems 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms Sturgis 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE BE Cultivation 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4605_15228 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willard DeHaan & Son Grnhs 21 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 ECM Transport-Baltimore 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Heartland Castings, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 246 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Angelica - Batavia 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Progreso LMMM San Antonio#11, LLC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caylym Home AVE 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Day Habilitation Program 1 21 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.