Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing · Michigan

Creative Foam

Dowagiac, MI · ~260 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Creative Foam runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Creative Foam: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Creative Foam safety composite

Creative Foam scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2018→2021

Creative Foam injury rate improved

Creative Foam's TCR fell 1.0 from 3.3 in 2018 to 2.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.3 · 2019=0.4 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #9/32
  • PHOTO Future Foam Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~260 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Future Foam Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Creative Foam in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Creative Foam averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Creative Foam TCR series: 2018=3.3 · 2019=0.4 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Creative Foam falls in its industry

474 Foam plastics products (except establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 32 Foam plastics products (except employers in Michigan.

Creative Foam (260 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Creative Foam
Creative Foam (260 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Creative Foam 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2021 2.3 1.4 5 0 0
2020 3.5 2.0 7 0 0
2019 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.3 2.1 7 1 0

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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Future Foam Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR UFP Technologies - Iowa 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SwimWays NC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leggett & Platt Aurora 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hydaker-Wheatlake Statewide 876 MI 260 FTE
STATE-SIZE FAYGO BEVERAGES INC 260 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ice Mountain - NWNA 260 FTE
STATE-SIZE Signs365.com 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADD, INC 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dowagiac Campus 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR Creative Foam - Dowagiac 256 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Timbers of Cass County 163 FTE
NAT-TCR Taylor Commercial Foodservice, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation (272-CAL3) 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Benson Systems 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Textron Aviation - Able Engineering 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Teledyne D.G.O'Brien 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE Neighbors Home Care 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metal-Matic, Inc.- Main Plant 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbia Steel Casting Co. Inc> 260 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.