Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing · Michigan

Creative Foam - Dowagiac

Name: Creative Foam - Dowagiac Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Dowagiac, MI · ~256 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Creative Foam - Dowagiac runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Creative Foam - Dowagiac: 2.3 TCR = 70% of Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Creative Foam - Dowagiac safety composite

Creative Foam - Dowagiac scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers
DART rate: F 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Creative Foam - Dowagiac: 1.9 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2024

Creative Foam - Dowagiac's TCR rose 1.8 from 1.9 in 2022 to 3.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Dowagiac, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 70% of ind

DART 2.5 DART
RANK #8/32
PHOTO Creative Foam - Moor…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 15 inj
SIZE ~256 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Creative Foam - Mooresville (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.3
Creative Foam

2.3
LPFP - Statesv

2.3
UFPT Georgetow

2.3
FXI, Inc

2.3

What this shows Creative Foam - Dowagiac averages 2.3 TCR (70% of the Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Creative Foam - Dowagiac TCR series: 2022=1.9 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Creative Foam - Dowagiac falls in its industry

474 Foam plastics products (except establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 32 Foam plastics products (except employers in Michigan.

Creative Foam - Dowagiac (256 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Creative Foam - Dowagiac has more employees than the Foam plastics products (except polystren median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2024	3.7	2.5	9
2023	1.3	0.9	3
2022	1.9	1.3	3

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · MI · Dowagiac

474 Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Creative Foam - Mooresville	MOORESVILLE, IN	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	LPFP - Statesville	STATESVILLE, NC	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	UFPT Georgetown	GEORGETOWN, MA	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	FXI, Inc	FORT WAYNE, IN	2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Clark Construction Company	LANSING	256 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Systex Products Corporation	BATTLE CREEK	256 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Howmet - Whitehall Plant 4	WHITEHALL	256 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Fori Automation LLC	SHELBY TOWNSHIP	256 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LADD, INC	Dowagiac	522 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Dowagiac Campus	Dowagiac	405 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Creative Foam	Dowagiac	260 FTE
CITY-NEAR	The Timbers of Cass County	Dowagiac	163 FTE
NAT-TCR	Wood Mulch Products, LLC	Lakeland, FL	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Russell Forest Products, Inc	Decatur, AL	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bunkie Service Center	Bunkie, LA	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	DayGlo Color Cleveland Facility	Cleveland, OH	2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Yearout Mechanical, LLC	Albuquerque, NM	256 FTE
NAT-SIZE	North Enterprises Inc.	Guaynabo, PR	256 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CMC Steel Tennessee	Knoxville, TN	256 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Select Specialty Hospital - Miami Lakes, Inc	Miami Lakes, FL	256 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. 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.