Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing · Michigan

Easypak - Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo, MI · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Easypak - Kalamazoo runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Easypak - Kalamazoo: 1.4 TCR = 42% of Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Easypak - Kalamazoo safety composite

Easypak - Kalamazoo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Easypak - Kalamazoo: 0.7 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.51× in 2020

Easypak - Kalamazoo's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.7 in 2019 to 2.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Kalamazoo, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 42% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #22/218
  • PHOTO Mannington - Madison…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mannington - Madison LVT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Easypak - Kalamazoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Easypak - Kalamazoo averages 1.4 TCR (42% of the Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Easypak - Kalamazoo TCR series: 2019=0.7 · 2020=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Easypak - Kalamazoo falls in its industry

2,838 Packaging, plastics (e.g., bli establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 218 Packaging, plastics (e.g., bli employers in Michigan.

Easypak - Kalamazoo (47 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Easypak - Kalamazoo
Easypak - Kalamazoo (47 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Easypak - Kalamazoo has fewer employees than the Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubb median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2020 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2019 0.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · MI · Kalamazoo

2,838 Packaging, plastics (e.g., blister, bubble), manufacturing 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 Mannington - Madison LVT 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BERRYMONR 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&G Newark Factory 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TAMKO - Lamar 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nash Greenhouses, LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Red Arrow Dairy 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEMCO Energy Gas Company - BC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Operations and Maintenance 47 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 Town & Country Supermarket #3823 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Velocity Truck Rental and Leasing 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 38 Elmira 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ECLI 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jacoby Feed & Seed 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid Florida Materials 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quint-C Pallet 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peacock Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Fiat - Hardeeville 47 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: 2020, 2019. 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.