Mail and Parcel Delivery · Michigan

DOWAGIAC_1361115

Dowagiac, MI · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DOWAGIAC_1361115 runs at 301% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mail and Parcel Delivery workplace, earning a grade F.

DOWAGIAC_1361115: 13.5 TCR = 301% of Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DOWAGIAC_1361115 safety composite

DOWAGIAC_1361115 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

DOWAGIAC_1361115: 10.9 → 16.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 16.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

DOWAGIAC_1361115's TCR rose 5.3 from 10.9 in 2023 to 16.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 491110 · Dowagiac, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.5 · 301% of ind

  • DART 16.2 DART
  • RANK #369/464
  • PHOTO WAUKEGAN_1386669
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WAUKEGAN_1386669 (0.0 TCR gap)

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DOWAGIAC_1361115 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DOWAGIAC_1361115 averages 13.5 TCR (301% of the Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS benchmark).

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

DOWAGIAC_1361115 TCR series: 2023=10.9 · 2024=16.2 · BLS 4.5

Where DOWAGIAC_1361115 falls in its industry

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #369 safest of 464 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers in Michigan.

DOWAGIAC_1361115 (21 employees, TCR 13.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8 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 050100150 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate DOWAGIAC_1361115
DOWAGIAC_1361115 (21 employees, TCR 13.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8

DOWAGIAC_1361115 has fewer employees than the Mail and Parcel Delivery median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.8. 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
2024 16.2 16.2 3 0 0
2023 10.9 10.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

491110 · MI · Dowagiac

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery 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 WAUKEGAN_1386669 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR JACKSONVILLE SOUTH_1382187 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BROADVIEW_1355935 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 286804-RICHMOND PO 13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms Sturgis 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE BE Cultivation 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4605_15228 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willard DeHaan & Son Grnhs 21 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 Rehabilitation Hospital of the Northwest 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Orald - Alderwood Hub 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Frost Valley YMCA 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Robinson Iron 13.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4505 - Valley Treating Plant 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town of Forest City - Fire Department 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE M.E. Industries, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE UTS Maritime Services, LLC 21 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. 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.