Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum · Michigan

Hydro - Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo, MI · ~183 workers · 4 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

Hydro - Kalamazoo runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum workplace, earning a grade A.

Hydro - Kalamazoo: 1.4 TCR = 42% of Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hydro - Kalamazoo safety composite

Hydro - Kalamazoo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

Hydro - Kalamazoo: 0.4 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2019

Hydro - Kalamazoo's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.4 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331318 · Kalamazoo, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 42% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #4/13
  • PHOTO Hydro - St. Augustine
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~183 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hydro - St. Augustine (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hydro - Kalamazoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hydro - Kalamazoo averages 1.4 TCR (42% of the Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum BLS benchmark).

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

Hydro - Kalamazoo TCR series: 2016=0.4 · 2017=0.5 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Hydro - Kalamazoo falls in its industry

204 Aluminum bar made by extruding establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 13 Aluminum bar made by extruding employers in Michigan.

Hydro - Kalamazoo (183 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 Hydro - Kalamazoo
Hydro - Kalamazoo (183 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Hydro - Kalamazoo has more employees than the Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2019 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2018 3.3 1.9 7 0 0
2017 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.4 0.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331318 · MI · Kalamazoo

204 Aluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum 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 Hydro - St. Augustine 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tennalum, A Division of Kaiser Aluminum Fabricated Products 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bonnell Aluminum (Niles), LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kaiser Aluminum Fabricated Products 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Walther Farms LLC 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wyoming Manufacturing Facility - KNA 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lear Corporation - Farwell 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Jordan Plastics Beaverton 183 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 ERMC - Triangle Town Center 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MEDCO 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6340-VIKING-MN009 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR AZCO INC. - Holly Frontier 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Keystone Plant 57 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wegmans 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Server Technology 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE OXEA Corporation 183 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.