Paper and Paperboard · Michigan

Kalamazoo MI (Mill)

Kalamazoo, MI · ~331 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kalamazoo MI (Mill) runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Paper and Paperboard workplace, earning a grade A.

Kalamazoo MI (Mill): 0.5 TCR = 16% of Paper and Paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kalamazoo MI (Mill) safety composite

Kalamazoo MI (Mill) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

Kalamazoo MI (Mill): 0.3 → 0.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 0.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.52× in 2020

Kalamazoo MI (Mill)'s TCR rose 0.5 from 0.3 in 2019 to 0.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322130 · Kalamazoo, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 16% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #4/11
  • PHOTO West Monroe LA (Mill)
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~331 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Monroe LA (Mill) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kalamazoo MI (Mill) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kalamazoo MI (Mill) averages 0.5 TCR (16% of the Paper and Paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Kalamazoo MI (Mill) TCR series: 2019=0.3 · 2020=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Kalamazoo MI (Mill) falls in its industry

181 Paper and Paperboard establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

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 11 Paper and Paperboard employers in Michigan.

Kalamazoo MI (Mill) (331 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Kalamazoo MI (Mill)
Kalamazoo MI (Mill) (331 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Kalamazoo MI (Mill) has more employees than the Paper and Paperboard median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 0.8 0.8 3 0 0
2019 0.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322130 · MI · Kalamazoo

181 Paper and Paperboard 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 West Monroe LA (Mill) 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evergreen Packaging - Raleigh 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vicksburg Mill 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NGC-MILTON PLANT 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE H.B. Fuller 331 FTE
STATE-SIZE HI-LEX Battle Creek (HIA) 331 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2010 331 FTE
STATE-SIZE MyMichigan Medical Center West Branch 331 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 Raytheon_Portsmouth_RI 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Minneapolis 414 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CO Hanley Building 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 984 Valley Stream, NY 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Roanoke Va Plant 331 FTE
NAT-SIZE SNC-Lavalin Houston Office 331 FTE
NAT-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : BFI1 331 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson & Johnson 331 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. 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.