Insulation, boiler, duct and pipe, installation · Michigan

Kasten Insulation Services

Portage, MI · ~59 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kasten Insulation Services runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Insulation, boiler, duct and pipe, installation workplace, earning a grade A.

Kasten Insulation Services: 0.5 TCR = 18% of Insulation, boiler, duct and pipe, installation BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kasten Insulation Services safety composite

Kasten Insulation Services scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kasten Insulation Services: 0.0 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 3.02× in 2024

Kasten Insulation Services's TCR rose 1.5 from 0.0 in 2022 to 1.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238290 · Portage, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 18% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #1/30
  • PHOTO National Maintenance…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: National Maintenance Contracting Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kasten Insulation Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kasten Insulation Services averages 0.5 TCR (18% of the Insulation, boiler, duct and pipe, installation BLS benchmark).

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

Kasten Insulation Services TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Kasten Insulation Services falls in its industry

1,138 Insulation, boiler, duct and p establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 30 Insulation, boiler, duct and p employers in Michigan.

Kasten Insulation Services (59 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kasten Insulation Services
Kasten Insulation Services (59 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Kasten Insulation Services has more employees than the Insulation, boiler, duct and pipe, insta median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238290 · MI · Portage

1,138 Insulation, boiler, duct and pipe, installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 136 employers in Portage, 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 National Maintenance Contracting Corp 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Intelligrated Systems, LLC, dba Honeywell Intelligrated and its successors 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Richmond 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Sacramento 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smart Vision Lights 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4066_7855 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Traverse County Road Commission 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metropolitan Concrete Corp. 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Instruments - 1941 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Medical 2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summit Polymers, Inc. 1,619 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Corporation Shared Services 768 FTE
NAT-TCR SA1 St Augustine Service Center 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Waukesha-S Inc 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lechler, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Keeley Construction Group 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 62C2 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Am Snf LLC 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bn Snf LLC 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tn Snf LLC 59 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.