Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard · Michigan

Kentwood Packaging Corp

Name: Kentwood Packaging Corp Workplace Safety Data
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Walker, MI · ~173 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.0
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Kentwood Packaging Corp runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade D.

Kentwood Packaging Corp: 5.0 TCR = 152% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kentwood Packaging Corp safety composite

Kentwood Packaging Corp 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).

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.63 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2020→2021

Kentwood Packaging Corp injury rate improved

Kentwood Packaging Corp's TCR fell 0.7 from 5.4 in 2020 to 4.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.4 · 2021=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Walker, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 152% of ind

DART 4.6 DART
RANK #46/60
PHOTO Wisconsin Green, LLC
BOOK 2y book
INJ 17 inj
SIZE ~173 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wisconsin Green, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Kentwood Packaging Corp averages 5.0 TCR (152% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

Kentwood Packaging Corp TCR series: 2020=5.4 · 2021=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Kentwood Packaging Corp falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 60 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Michigan.

Kentwood Packaging Corp (173 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Kentwood Packaging Corp has more employees than the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2021	4.6	4.6	8	0	0
2020	5.4	2.4	9	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · MI · Walker

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 67 employers in Walker, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Wisconsin Green, LLC	WEST BEND, WI	5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Liberty Packaging, Poway	POWAY, CA	5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Shoreline Zeeland	ZEELAND, MI	5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	JESSUP, MD (Baltimore)	JESSUP, MD	5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	City of Detroit Department of Public Works - Street Maintenance Division	DETROIT	173 FTE
STATE-SIZE	LGC Global, Inc.	DETROIT	173 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Salt-St. Clair	ST. CLAIR	173 FTE
STATE-SIZE	W. R. Grace South Haven	SOUTH HAVEN	173 FTE
CITY-NEAR	AMZL : DGR1	Walker	793 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BHI Bissell Homecare Inc.	Walker	705 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Walker Stamping & Assembly (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 1)	Walker	469 FTE
CITY-NEAR	West Contract Manufacturing Grand Rapids	Walker	465 FTE
NAT-TCR	Prieto Construction Company, Inc.	Rancho Santa Margarita, CA	5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Saputo Dairy Foods USA, LLC	White Bear Lake, MN	5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	MRE Jasper, LLC	Jasper, TN	5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Store 1602	Jacksonville, FL	5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	American Electric, Inc.	Richland, WA	173 FTE
NAT-SIZE	HEADA	Winona, MN	173 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ameriscape USA Inc.	Thonotosassa, FL	173 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Interceramic Headquarters	Carrollton, TX	173 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.