Recreation and education · Michigan

Kalamazoo Nature Center

Kalamazoo, MI · ~87 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kalamazoo Nature Center runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Recreation and education workplace, earning a grade C.

Kalamazoo Nature Center: 2.6 TCR = 85% of Recreation and education BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kalamazoo Nature Center safety composite

Kalamazoo Nature Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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 Nature Center held a steady TCR band

Kalamazoo Nature Center's TCR held near 0.0 from 2.6 in 2023 to 2.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.6 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712190 · Kalamazoo, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 85% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #3/15
  • PHOTO TAWAS POINT STATE PA…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TAWAS POINT STATE PARK - DNR (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kalamazoo Nature Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kalamazoo Nature Center averages 2.6 TCR (85% of the Recreation and education BLS benchmark).

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

Kalamazoo Nature Center TCR series: 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.1

Where Kalamazoo Nature Center falls in its industry

126 Recreation and education establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 15 Recreation and education employers in Michigan.

Kalamazoo Nature Center (87 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 6.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kalamazoo Nature Center
Kalamazoo Nature Center (87 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 6.7

Kalamazoo Nature Center has more employees than the Recreation and education median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.7. 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 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2023 2.6 2.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712190 · MI · Kalamazoo

126 Recreation and education 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 TAWAS POINT STATE PARK - DNR 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR OC Parks Headquarters 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NATURE PARKS AND OTHER SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Leitz Farms LLC 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (IL) 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walkent 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE George W. Auch Company 87 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 Hawaii 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR INTECH Construction, LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cedar Falls 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Roxtec Inc 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chicago Rivet & Machine Company 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wieland Thermal Solutions, Inc. 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oakwood Health Services 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Athena Farms 87 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. 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.