Pants (e.g., athletic, dress, sweat, work), men's and boys', cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors) · Michigan

Edwards Garment Co.

Kalamazoo, MI · ~171 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Edwards Garment Co. runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pants (e.g., athletic, dress, sweat, work), men's and boys', cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors) workplace, earning a grade C.

Edwards Garment Co.: 3.3 TCR = 99% of Pants (e.g., athletic, dress, sweat, work), men's and boys', cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors) BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Edwards Garment Co. safety composite

Edwards Garment Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

Edwards Garment Co. held a steady TCR band

Edwards Garment Co.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 4.0 in 2018 to 4.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.0 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 315220 · Kalamazoo, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 99% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK P39
  • PHOTO Euclid Vidaro Mfg. Co
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~171 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Euclid Vidaro Mfg. Co (0.0 TCR gap)

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Edwards Garment Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Edwards Garment Co. averages 3.3 TCR (99% of the Pants (e.g., athletic, dress, sweat, work), men's and boys', cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors) BLS benchmark).

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

Edwards Garment Co. TCR series: 2018=4 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Edwards Garment Co. falls in its industry

46 Pants (e.g., athletic, dress, establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Edwards Garment Co. (171 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 115 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Edwards Garment Co.
Edwards Garment Co. (171 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 115 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Edwards Garment Co. has more employees than the Pants (e.g., athletic, dress, sweat, wor median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2023 4.1 2.0 4 2 0
2022 7.8 4.3 5 6 0
2021 1.6 1.6 1 1 0
2020 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2019 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2018 4.0 2.3 4 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

315220 · MI · Kalamazoo

46 Pants (e.g., athletic, dress, sweat, work), men's and boys', cut and sewn from purchased fabric (except apparel contractors) 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 Euclid Vidaro Mfg. Co 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR W Diamond Group 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Factory/Manufacturing & Distribution Center 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Williamson-Dickie Fort Worth Service Center I 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Manistee - Chemicals 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Rapids Controls 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE JVIS USA LLC Benton Harbor Crystal 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayco Groesbeck 171 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 The Wellington at Dayton 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1360 1364 Midline 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Meadows Design & Landscaping, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson Parish Hospital 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unit 119 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE LNK - 100 Ricefield 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weir Pump and Valve Solutions 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE C&F Enterprises LLC 171 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.