Colleges, community · Michigan

Dowagiac Campus

Dowagiac, MI · ~405 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dowagiac Campus runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Colleges, community workplace, earning a grade A.

Dowagiac Campus: 0.5 TCR = 34% of Colleges, community BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dowagiac Campus safety composite

Dowagiac Campus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Dowagiac Campus held a steady TCR band

Dowagiac Campus's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.4 in 2016 to 0.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 0.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.4 · 2017=0.5 · 2018=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Dowagiac, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 34% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Pellissippi State Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~405 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pellissippi State Community College (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dowagiac Campus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dowagiac Campus averages 0.5 TCR (34% of the Colleges, community BLS benchmark).

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

Dowagiac Campus TCR series: 2016=0.4 · 2017=0.5 · 2018=0.5 · BLS 1.4

Where Dowagiac Campus falls in its industry

127 Colleges, community establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Colleges, community employers in Michigan.

Dowagiac Campus (405 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Dowagiac Campus
Dowagiac Campus (405 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Dowagiac Campus has more employees than the Colleges, community median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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 0.5 0.0 0 1 0
2017 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · MI · Dowagiac

127 Colleges, community 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 Pellissippi State Community College 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heartland Community College- Normal 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Mexico Military Institute 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR IECC - District Office 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 5844 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE GFL Environmental Sterling Heights 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE Battle Creek Manufacturing Facility 404 FTE
STATE-SIZE Adient Battle Creek 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADD, INC 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR Creative Foam 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR Creative Foam - Dowagiac 256 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Timbers of Cass County 163 FTE
NAT-TCR DMI Inc 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Andale Ready Mix Central, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR AkzoNobel Surface Chemistry LLC 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Starcon @ LyondellBasell Morris 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE University Park (Dralle Road) 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE US IL Effingham DSC 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mondelez International-Rockford Plant 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9705 Data Park 405 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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