Parks and recreation commission, government · Michigan

City of Kalamazoo-Parks & Recreation

Kalamazoo, MI · ~27 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Kalamazoo-Parks & Recreation runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Parks and recreation commission, government workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Kalamazoo-Parks & Recreation: 7.6 TCR = 238% of Parks and recreation commission, government BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Kalamazoo-Parks & Recreation safety composite

City of Kalamazoo-Parks & Recreation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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 Kalamazoo-Parks & Recreation: 0.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 25.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.34× in 2024

City of Kalamazoo-Parks & Recreation's TCR rose 2.6 from 0.0 in 2021 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 25.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 924120 · Kalamazoo, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 238% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #18/26
  • PHOTO Cheviot Hills RC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cheviot Hills RC (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Kalamazoo-Parks & Recreation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Kalamazoo-Parks & Recreation averages 7.6 TCR (238% of the Parks and recreation commission, government BLS benchmark).

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

City of Kalamazoo-Parks & Recreation TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=25.3 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Kalamazoo-Parks & Recreation falls in its industry

413 Parks and recreation commissio establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 26 Parks and recreation commissio employers in Michigan.

City of Kalamazoo-Parks & Recreation (27 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Kalamazoo-Parks & Recreation
City of Kalamazoo-Parks & Recreation (27 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.0

City of Kalamazoo-Parks & Recreation has fewer employees than the Parks and recreation commission, governm median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2023 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2022 25.3 25.3 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

924120 · MI · Kalamazoo

413 Parks and recreation commission, government 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 Cheviot Hills RC 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parks and Recreation 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Washington State Dept of Natural Resources - Northeast Region 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DEP005 - BOR-Boating 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Badger Evergreen Nursery LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE K Drive Greenhouse Co 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (MO) 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Luurtsema Sales Inc. 27 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 Amazon.com Services LLC - JAX2 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Prairie Senior Cottages LLC Albert Lea 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - LAS1 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DDX7 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Worth Construction Co., Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE McCarthy Court 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE GLDC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paragon Technical Services 27 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.