Community colleges · Michigan

Kalamazoo Valley Community College

Kalamazoo, MI · ~1,197 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kalamazoo Valley Community College runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Community colleges workplace, earning a grade D.

Kalamazoo Valley Community College: 1.7 TCR = 121% of Community colleges BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kalamazoo Valley Community College safety composite

Kalamazoo Valley Community College scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Kalamazoo Valley Community College held a steady TCR band

Kalamazoo Valley Community College's TCR held near 0.0 from 1.7 in 2018 to 1.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.7 · 2019=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Kalamazoo, MI ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 1.7 · 121% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Elkhorn Campus
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~1,197 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elkhorn Campus (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kalamazoo Valley Community College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kalamazoo Valley Community College averages 1.7 TCR (121% of the Community colleges BLS benchmark).

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

Kalamazoo Valley Community College TCR series: 2018=1.7 · 2019=1.7 · BLS 1.4

Where Kalamazoo Valley Community College falls in its industry

127 Community colleges establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

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 5 Community colleges employers in Michigan.

Kalamazoo Valley Community College (1,197 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Kalamazoo Valley Community College (1,197 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Kalamazoo Valley Community College has more employees than the Community colleges median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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
2019 1.7 0.0 8 0 0
2018 1.7 0.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · MI · Kalamazoo

127 Community colleges 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 Elkhorn Campus 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minnesota State College Southeast Red Wing Campus 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberal Arts Campus and Pacific Coast Campus 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital Main Campus 1,198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henry Ford- Jackson Downtown Campus 1,201 FTE
STATE-SIZE Williams International, LLC (HQ) 1,206 FTE
STATE-SIZE MICHIGAN METROPLEX_1445732 1,188 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 Honeywell Genesis Cable 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Arc Machines Inc 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MCI-SPUSA 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR General Mills (Wellston) 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lakewood 1,197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lindt & Sprungli (USA) Inc. 1,197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital 1,197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC Romeoville 1,197 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.