City and town managers' offices · Michigan

City of Dowagiac

Dowagiac, MI · ~72 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Dowagiac runs at 277% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical City and town managers' offices workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Dowagiac: 8.8 TCR = 277% of City and town managers' offices BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Dowagiac safety composite

City of Dowagiac scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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 8.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

City of Dowagiac: 7.0 → 15.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 15.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2018

City of Dowagiac's TCR rose 8.6 from 7.0 in 2016 to 15.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Dowagiac, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 277% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #65/79
  • PHOTO City of Richfield, M…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Richfield, Minnesota (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Dowagiac in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Dowagiac averages 8.8 TCR (277% of the City and town managers' offices BLS benchmark).

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

City of Dowagiac TCR series: 2016=7 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=15.7 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Dowagiac falls in its industry

1,010 City and town managers' office establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #65 safest of 79 City and town managers' office employers in Michigan.

City of Dowagiac (72 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Dowagiac
City of Dowagiac (72 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Dowagiac has fewer employees than the City and town managers' offices median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2018 15.7 5.9 8 0 0
2017 3.8 1.9 2 0 0
2016 7.0 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · MI · Dowagiac

1,010 City and town managers' offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 22 employers in Dowagiac, 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 City of Richfield, Minnesota 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town Of Hartford 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of San Luis Obispo 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Geneva 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Driven Grow LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elite Apple Company, LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lynn Mayer's Great Lakes Glads, Inc. 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Navitas House 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADD, INC 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dowagiac Campus 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR Creative Foam 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR Creative Foam - Dowagiac 256 FTE
NAT-TCR Panama City Health and Rehabilitation Center 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Hometown #556 (Prosser, WA) 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Health - Dwight 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pap Tucson 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE BMW 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Presence Nazarethville 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #69 (Coeur Dalene, ID) 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #66 (Spokane, WA (North)) 72 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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