Barbecues, grills, and braziers manufacturing · Michigan

Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet

Galesburg, MI · ~63 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Barbecues, grills, and braziers manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet: 2.4 TCR = 71% of Barbecues, grills, and braziers manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet safety composite

Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet: 1.7 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2024

Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.7 in 2023 to 3.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335221 · Galesburg, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 71% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK P65
  • PHOTO BSH Home Appliances …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BSH Home Appliances Corporation - LaFollette (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet averages 2.4 TCR (71% of the Barbecues, grills, and braziers manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet TCR series: 2023=1.7 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet falls in its industry

26 Barbecues, grills, and brazier establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet (63 employees, TCR 2.4) among 18 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 203 employees and a TCR of 3.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 19 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet
Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet (63 employees, TCR 2.4) among 18 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 203 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet has fewer employees than the Barbecues, grills, and braziers manufact median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2023 1.7 1.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335221 · MI · Galesburg

26 Barbecues, grills, and braziers manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 25 employers in Galesburg, 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 BSH Home Appliances Corporation - LaFollette 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whirlpool Corporation - Cleveland Operation 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR imperial cal products 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Traeger Pellet Grills, LLC 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE BIRMINGHAM_1355012 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-ZGLD 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medilodge of Plymouth 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2358_4306 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0587 - Kalamazoo MI DC 1,230 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0587 - Kalamazoo DC 1,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bell's Brewery 373 FTE
CITY-NEAR GALESBURG MI 363 FTE
NAT-TCR R&M Service Solutions LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Woolace Electric Corp. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 09 Grand Island 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Shoprite of Perth Amboy 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Glassman Corporation 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tulsa 10417 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norman 10020 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hidalgo 10151 63 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.