Thermoplastic resins and plastics materials manufacturing · Michigan

RKAA Business LLC DBA Chippewa Plastics

Name: RKAA Business LLC DBA Chippewa Plastics Workplace Safety Data
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Evart, MI · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

RKAA Business LLC DBA Chippewa Plastics runs at 295% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Thermoplastic resins and plastics materials manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

RKAA Business LLC DBA Chippewa Plastics: 9.7 TCR = 295% of Thermoplastic resins and plastics materials manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RKAA Business LLC DBA Chippewa Plastics safety composite

RKAA Business LLC DBA Chippewa Plastics scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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).

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 9.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

RKAA Business LLC DBA Chippewa Plastics: 9.0 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

RKAA Business LLC DBA Chippewa Plastics's TCR rose 1.4 from 9.0 in 2021 to 10.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Evart, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 295% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #31/31
PHOTO Arnette Polymers, LLC
BOOK 2y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arnette Polymers, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows RKAA Business LLC DBA Chippewa Plastics averages 9.7 TCR (295% of the Thermoplastic resins and plastics materials manufacturing BLS benchmark).

RKAA Business LLC DBA Chippewa Plastics TCR series: 2021=9 · 2023=10.4 · BLS 3.3

Where RKAA Business LLC DBA Chippewa Plastics falls in its industry

644 Thermoplastic resins and plast establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 31 Thermoplastic resins and plast employers in Michigan.

RKAA Business LLC DBA Chippewa Plastics (48 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

RKAA Business LLC DBA Chippewa Plastics has fewer employees than the Thermoplastic resins and plastics materi median and a higher 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
2023	10.4	0.0	2	0	0
2021	9.0	3.9	7	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · MI · Evart

644 Thermoplastic resins and plastics materials manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 5 employers in Evart, 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	Arnette Polymers, LLC	RICHMOND, MO	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hydromer, Inc.	BRANCHBURG, NJ	9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Greystone Manufacturing	BETTENDORF, IA	9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sumitomo Bakelite North America Inc.	MANCHESTER, CT	9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Sietsema Farms	ALLENDALE	48 FTE
STATE-SIZE	J.M. Longyear, LLC - Office & Forestry	MARQUETTE	48 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Great Lakes Packing Co	KEWADIN	48 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Top Grade Aggregates, LLC	HAMILTON	48 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ventra Evart LLC	Evart	862 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Attitude Wellness	Evart	297 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC - Evart	Evart	122 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Patriot Steel Works, LLC	Evart	41 FTE
NAT-TCR	RED Primesteak	Oklahoma City, OK	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Armstrong Garden Centers 728	La Canada, CA	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Wilderness View	Fairbury, NE	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	718 Fre27	Alexandria, VA	9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	American Greenfuels LLC	New Haven, CT	48 FTE
NAT-SIZE	NE Truck-GI	Grand Island, NE	48 FTE
NAT-SIZE	076-ROE Summersville	Summersville, MO	48 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Gund Company	Waukesha, WI	48 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: 2023, 2021. 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.