Food containers, sanitary, folding, made from purchased paperboard · Michigan

Mall City Containers

Kalamazoo, MI · ~84 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mall City Containers runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food containers, sanitary, folding, made from purchased paperboard workplace, earning a grade D.

Mall City Containers: 4.2 TCR = 128% of Food containers, sanitary, folding, made from purchased paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mall City Containers safety composite

Mall City Containers scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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 4.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Mall City Containers: 3.8 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.1× in 2020

Mall City Containers's TCR rose 0.8 from 3.8 in 2019 to 4.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322212 · Kalamazoo, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 128% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO MM Packaging PR - Ma…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MM Packaging PR - Manati (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mall City Containers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mall City Containers averages 4.2 TCR (128% of the Food containers, sanitary, folding, made from purchased paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Mall City Containers TCR series: 2019=3.8 · 2020=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Mall City Containers falls in its industry

205 Food containers, sanitary, fol establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Food containers, sanitary, fol employers in Michigan.

Mall City Containers (84 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Mall City Containers
Mall City Containers (84 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Mall City Containers has fewer employees than the Food containers, sanitary, folding, made median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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
2020 4.6 4.6 3 0 0
2019 3.8 2.5 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322212 · MI · Kalamazoo

205 Food containers, sanitary, folding, made from purchased paperboard 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 MM Packaging PR - Manati 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Abox Packaging Company 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sandusky Packaging, Corp. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Albany - Beeler Street 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Parnall East 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Howell Service Center 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utilities Instrumentation Service 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harvest Energy Solutions 84 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 Clear Vue 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR USquare Hotel, LLC. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Islander Center 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sendik's Food Market Mequon 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mill 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Niagara Transformer Corp 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frazee Construction 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE DEN 84 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: 2020, 2019. 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.