County supervisors' and executives' offices · Michigan

Kalamazoo Co. Sheriff's Office

Kalamazoo, MI · ~236 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Kalamazoo Co. Sheriff's Office runs at 332% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical County supervisors' and executives' offices workplace, earning a grade F.

Kalamazoo Co. Sheriff's Office: 10.6 TCR = 332% of County supervisors' and executives' offices BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kalamazoo Co. Sheriff's Office safety composite

Kalamazoo Co. Sheriff's Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

9/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.1

2019→2024

Kalamazoo Co. Sheriff's Office injury rate improved

Kalamazoo Co. Sheriff's Office's TCR fell 1.1 from 9.5 in 2019 to 8.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 15.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.5 · 2020=14.1 · 2021=15.4 · 2022=8.5 · 2023=7.9 · 2024=8.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Kalamazoo, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 332% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #70/79
  • PHOTO COH Police Department
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 124 inj
  • SIZE ~236 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: COH Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kalamazoo Co. Sheriff's Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kalamazoo Co. Sheriff's Office averages 10.6 TCR (332% of the County supervisors' and executives' offices BLS benchmark).

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

Kalamazoo Co. Sheriff's Office TCR series: 2019=9.5 · 2020=14.1 · 2021=15.4 · 2022=8.5 · 2023=7.9 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Kalamazoo Co. Sheriff's Office falls in its industry

1,010 County supervisors' and execut establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #70 safest of 79 County supervisors' and execut employers in Michigan.

Kalamazoo Co. Sheriff's Office (236 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kalamazoo Co. Sheriff's Office
Kalamazoo Co. Sheriff's Office (236 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Kalamazoo Co. Sheriff's Office has more employees than the County supervisors' and executives' offi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 8.4 7.6 20 0 0
2023 7.9 6.1 18 0 0
2022 8.5 6.2 18 0 0
2021 15.4 5.3 27 8 1
2020 14.1 9.7 18 17 0
2019 9.5 4.5 23 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · MI · Kalamazoo

1,010 County supervisors' and executives' offices 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 COH Police Department 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Brooklyn Park 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The United States of America 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Minnetonka 10.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Complete Automation 236 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1642 236 FTE
STATE-SIZE 270 - Alma 236 FTE
STATE-SIZE 282 - Alpena MI 236 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 Beebe Landscape Services, Inc. 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gustafson Logging Co. 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Joshua Spring Senior Living 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hanes Mill Landfill 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wagram, NC 236 FTE
NAT-SIZE RiverBend Materials 236 FTE
NAT-SIZE Red Spot Paint & Varnish 236 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chenango Forks Central School District 236 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.