Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing · Michigan

Kamps Pallets Niles

Niles, MI · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kamps Pallets Niles runs at 206% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Kamps Pallets Niles: 6.8 TCR = 206% of Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kamps Pallets Niles safety composite

Kamps Pallets Niles scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.9

2022→2024

Kamps Pallets Niles injury rate improved

Kamps Pallets Niles's TCR fell 0.9 from 6.5 in 2022 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.5 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 206% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #12/30
  • PHOTO Coal Valley IL
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coal Valley IL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kamps Pallets Niles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kamps Pallets Niles averages 6.8 TCR (206% of the Pallet containers, 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 Pallets Niles TCR series: 2022=6.5 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Kamps Pallets Niles falls in its industry

952 Pallet containers, wood or woo establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #12 safest of 30 Pallet containers, wood or woo employers in Michigan.

Kamps Pallets Niles (37 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 Pallets Niles
Kamps Pallets Niles (37 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Kamps Pallets Niles has fewer employees than the Pallet containers, wood or wood and meta 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
2024 5.6 5.6 2 0 0
2023 8.2 2.7 3 0 0
2022 6.5 6.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · MI · Niles

952 Pallet containers, 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 Coal Valley IL 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clemmons Pallet & Skid Works, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Millwood, Inc. Alburtis 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pallet Shop 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Full Circle Dairy 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dakota Plains Dairy 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE East River Genetic Services LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iron Mountain Hydro 37 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 Century Linen- Balzano 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Transport - 217 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Franklin Wi - 3195 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Grimes Ia - 3360 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cesco Plant 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Connect, Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Americold Logistics, LLC: Gadsden 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE EH Surgery Center - Miller Hill 37 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, 2022. 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.