Extracts, food (except coffee, meat), manufacturing · Michigan

National Flavors, LLC

Kalamazoo, MI · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

National Flavors, LLC runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Extracts, food (except coffee, meat), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

National Flavors, LLC: 5.4 TCR = 131% of Extracts, food (except coffee, meat), manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

National Flavors, LLC safety composite

National Flavors, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

National Flavors, LLC: 5.8 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.42× in 2020

National Flavors, LLC's TCR rose 1.8 from 5.8 in 2016 to 7.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Kalamazoo, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 131% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO Ungerer & Company
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ungerer & Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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National Flavors, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows National Flavors, LLC averages 5.4 TCR (131% of the Extracts, food (except coffee, meat), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

National Flavors, LLC TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=2.7 · 2020=7.6 · BLS 4.1

Where National Flavors, LLC falls in its industry

200 Extracts, food (except coffee, establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

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 13 Extracts, food (except coffee, employers in Michigan.

National Flavors, LLC (40 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate National Flavors, LLC
National Flavors, LLC (40 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

National Flavors, LLC has fewer employees than the Extracts, food (except coffee, meat), ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 7.6 7.6 4 0 0
2017 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2016 5.8 2.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · MI · Kalamazoo

200 Extracts, food (except coffee, meat), manufacturing 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 Ungerer & Company 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elite Spice, Inc. Reno location 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BADIA SPICES LLC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR JCB Flavors LLC 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bushel Basket Orchards, Inc 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shelbyville, MI 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dan & Jerrys Pineview Greenhouse LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thumb Electric Cooperative of Michigan 40 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 Molding 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 122 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CS Poplar Bluff 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 8 Stony Brook, Ny 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grand Ave. Chicago Store 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE OAK Oakland 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elementis Specialties 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE MachineTek LLC 40 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, 2017, 2016. 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.