Employer · Michigan

MI-KALAM04-Kalamazoo - MI - Halperns

Kalamazoo, MI · ~75 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

MI-KALAM04-Kalamazoo - MI - Halperns runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

MI-KALAM04-Kalamazoo - MI - Halperns: 1.4 TCR = 64% of industry BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MI-KALAM04-Kalamazoo - MI - Halperns safety composite

MI-KALAM04-Kalamazoo - MI - Halperns scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

MI-KALAM04-Kalamazoo - MI - Halperns held a steady TCR band

MI-KALAM04-Kalamazoo - MI - Halperns's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.3 in 2020 to 1.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.3 · 2021=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424470 · Kalamazoo, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 64% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #1/11
  • PHOTO J&D Refrigerated
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J&D Refrigerated (0.1 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Michigan employers → · Look up another →

MI-KALAM04-Kalamazoo - MI - Halperns in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MI-KALAM04-Kalamazoo - MI - Halperns averages 1.4 TCR (64% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

MI-KALAM04-Kalamazoo - MI - Halperns TCR series: 2020=1.3 · 2021=1.5 · BLS 2.2

Where MI-KALAM04-Kalamazoo - MI - Halperns falls in its industry

162 industry establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

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 11 industry employers in Michigan.

MI-KALAM04-Kalamazoo - MI - Halperns (75 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate MI-KALAM04-Kalamazoo - MI - Halperns
MI-KALAM04-Kalamazoo - MI - Halperns (75 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8

MI-KALAM04-Kalamazoo - MI - Halperns has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2020 1.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424470 · MI · Kalamazoo

162 industry 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 J&D Refrigerated 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schiess Distributors, Inc 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Butts Foods - Nashville 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schuster Meat Corporation 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE McCarthy & Smith Inc 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE First Companies INC 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE P.J. Steel 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baker Construction Company Inc 75 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 Matthews International 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Steel Dynamics Structural & Rail Division 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 43561s - Tulsa Dc 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TDManufacturing 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Drury Plaza Hotel - St. Louis at the Arch 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acker-Stone Industries, INC 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westchester Village of Lenexa 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rice, TX 75 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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