Electrician · Michigan

Esper Electric, Ltd.

Kalamazoo, MI · ~59 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Esper Electric, Ltd. runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Electrician workplace, earning a grade D.

Esper Electric, Ltd.: 3.7 TCR = 131% of Electrician BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Esper Electric, Ltd. safety composite

Esper Electric, Ltd. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Esper Electric, Ltd.: 3.2 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2024

Esper Electric, Ltd.'s TCR rose 4.5 from 3.2 in 2016 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Kalamazoo, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 131% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #91/133
  • PHOTO H & D Electric, Inc.
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: H & D Electric, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Esper Electric, Ltd. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Esper Electric, Ltd. averages 3.7 TCR (131% of the Electrician BLS benchmark).

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

Esper Electric, Ltd. TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=6 · 2023=8.9 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Esper Electric, Ltd. falls in its industry

4,550 Electrician establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #91 safest of 133 Electrician employers in Michigan.

Esper Electric, Ltd. (59 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Esper Electric, Ltd.
Esper Electric, Ltd. (59 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Esper Electric, Ltd. has fewer employees than the Electrician median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 7.7 3.1 5 0 0
2023 8.9 1.5 6 0 0
2022 6.0 1.5 4 0 0
2021 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.2 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · MI · Kalamazoo

4,550 Electrician 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 H & D Electric, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DAKOTA ELECTRIC CONSTRUCTION CO. INC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Communication Technology Services LLC - FL 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Willdan Energy Company - Huntersville 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smart Vision Lights 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4066_7855 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Traverse County Road Commission 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metropolitan Concrete Corp. 59 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 WireCrafters Louisville 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Store #36 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR EnerSys Santa Fe Springs 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Area Industries 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grinnell 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florida Dredge & Dock, LLC 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aegis of Napa 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coal Valley IL 59 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.