Employer · Michigan

Kalamazoo, Mi Hexacomb

Kalamazoo, MI · ~66 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kalamazoo, Mi Hexacomb runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

Kalamazoo, Mi Hexacomb: 2.8 TCR = 85% of industry BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kalamazoo, Mi Hexacomb safety composite

Kalamazoo, Mi Hexacomb scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

Kalamazoo, Mi Hexacomb held a steady TCR band

Kalamazoo, Mi Hexacomb's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.4 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.4 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Kalamazoo, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 85% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #25/60
  • PHOTO Pratt Industries, Al…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pratt Industries, Allentown Corrugated, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kalamazoo, Mi Hexacomb in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kalamazoo, Mi Hexacomb averages 2.8 TCR (85% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Kalamazoo, Mi Hexacomb TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Kalamazoo, Mi Hexacomb falls in its industry

1,338 industry establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 60 industry employers in Michigan.

Kalamazoo, Mi Hexacomb (66 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0100200300 0123456 Average employees Total Case Rate Kalamazoo, Mi Hexacomb
Kalamazoo, Mi Hexacomb (66 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Kalamazoo, Mi Hexacomb has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2024 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 3 0 0
2022 4.5 2.3 4 0 0
2021 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2020 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2019 2.6 1.3 1 1 0
2018 5.2 3.9 3 1 0
2017 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2016 1.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · MI · Kalamazoo

1,338 industry 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 Pratt Industries, Allentown Corrugated, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SupplyOne Weyers Cave 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Packaging Specialties 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Quality Packaging Corp. 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Frank Rewold and Son, Inc. - Main Branch 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ox Paperboard WP, LLC 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milbocker & Sons Inc 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE FSM Rochester Hills 66 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 Hanon Systems USA, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Willowbrook 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gray Trucking Inc 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR SHAW Construction Corp 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE American House - Sarasota 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Current Iowa 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1025 -1035 North Highland Ave Los Angeles CA 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accu-Fab LLC 66 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, 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.