Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing · Michigan

Kamps Niles

Niles, MI · ~48 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kamps Niles runs at 341% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Kamps Niles: 11.2 TCR = 341% of Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kamps Niles safety composite

Kamps Niles scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Kamps Niles: 8.2 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 31.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2021

Kamps Niles's TCR rose 3.1 from 8.2 in 2016 to 11.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 31.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Niles, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.2 · 341% of ind

  • DART 11.3 DART
  • RANK #24/30
  • PHOTO Pallet Express Inc
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pallet Express Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kamps Niles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kamps Niles averages 11.2 TCR (341% of the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kamps Niles TCR series: 2016=8.2 · 2017=8.8 · 2018=31.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=7.3 · 2021=11.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Kamps Niles falls in its industry

952 Pallets, wood or wood and meta establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 30 Pallets, wood or wood and meta employers in Michigan.

Kamps Niles (48 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kamps Niles
Kamps Niles (48 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Kamps Niles has fewer employees than the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combinat median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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
2021 11.3 11.3 4 0 0
2020 7.3 4.9 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 31.8 28.5 19 0 0
2017 8.8 7.3 6 0 0
2016 8.2 8.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · MI · Niles

952 Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 68 employers in Niles, 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 Pallet Express Inc 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industrial Crate & Supply, Inc. 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pallet Logistics of America - San Antonio 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Badger Custom Pallet Inc 11.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sietsema Farms 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.M. Longyear, LLC - Office & Forestry 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Packing Co 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Top Grade Aggregates, LLC 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Hospital Niles 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2010 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Hospital - Niles 331 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2010 331 FTE
NAT-TCR 235076-Lanham-Seabrook Po 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Systems Plumbing 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Niece Products of Kansas 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Philadelphia Historic District 11.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hla Ewing, Nj 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Virginia Textile Service, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE RH Marlin, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vermeer-Illinois, Inc 48 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: 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.