Hospice care services, in home · Michigan

Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan - Kalamazoo Office

Kalamazoo, MI · ~119 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan - Kalamazoo Office runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospice care services, in home workplace, earning a grade C.

Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan - Kalamazoo Office: 4.5 TCR = 87% of Hospice care services, in home BLS 5.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan - Kalamazoo Office safety composite

Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan - Kalamazoo Office scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan - Kalamazoo Office: 5.8 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2020

Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan - Kalamazoo Office's TCR rose 0.6 from 5.8 in 2016 to 6.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Kalamazoo, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 87% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #49/113
  • PHOTO GRP
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GRP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan - Kalamazoo Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan - Kalamazoo Office averages 4.5 TCR (87% of the Hospice care services, in home BLS benchmark).

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

Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan - Kalamazoo Office TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=6.4 · BLS 5.2

Where Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan - Kalamazoo Office falls in its industry

3,635 Hospice care services, in home establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 113 Hospice care services, in home employers in Michigan.

Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan - Kalamazoo Office (119 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan - Kalamazoo Office
Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan - Kalamazoo Office (119 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan - Kalamazoo Office has more employees than the Hospice care services, in home median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2020 6.4 4.8 3 5 0
2019 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2018 4.9 2.9 5 0 0
2017 4.8 2.4 4 0 0
2016 5.8 4.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · MI · Kalamazoo

3,635 Hospice care services, in home 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 GRP 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSH Pitt South 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Iowa Home Care Marshalltown 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CHI FRANCISCAN HAH-TACOMA 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Payne & Dolan, Inc - MI/Shop/Trans./QC/Mfg. 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interkal LLC 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ritsema Associates 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lester Brothers Excavating, Inc. 119 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 American Stairways, INC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Residence Inn by Marriott Fort Lauderdale / Plantation 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Polytainers, Inc. - Lees Summit 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Omaha OM 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tramec Sloan Galion 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jersey Shore Center 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sendik's Food Market Grafton 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.V. Manufacturing 119 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.