Professional equipment and supplies (except dental, medical, ophthalmic) merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Stafford-Smith, Inc.

Kalamazoo, MI · ~275 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stafford-Smith, Inc. runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Professional equipment and supplies (except dental, medical, ophthalmic) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Stafford-Smith, Inc.: 1.4 TCR = 63% of Professional equipment and supplies (except dental, medical, ophthalmic) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stafford-Smith, Inc. safety composite

Stafford-Smith, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

Stafford-Smith, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Stafford-Smith, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 1.4 in 2023 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.4 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423490 · Kalamazoo, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 63% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK P72
  • PHOTO VWR Catalyst Foster …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~275 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VWR Catalyst Foster City (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stafford-Smith, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stafford-Smith, Inc. averages 1.4 TCR (63% of the Professional equipment and supplies (except dental, medical, ophthalmic) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Stafford-Smith, Inc. TCR series: 2023=1.4 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Stafford-Smith, Inc. falls in its industry

96 Professional equipment and sup establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Stafford-Smith, Inc. (275 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 05001,0001,500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Stafford-Smith, Inc.
Stafford-Smith, Inc. (275 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Stafford-Smith, Inc. has more employees than the Professional equipment and supplies (exc median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2024 1.4 1.4 4 0 0
2023 1.4 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423490 · MI · Kalamazoo

96 Professional equipment and supplies (except dental, medical, ophthalmic) merchant wholesalers 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 VWR Catalyst Foster City 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 18177010 18177010-MWI - NAMPA, ID 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MWI Animal Health 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cole-Parmer Instruments LLC 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shaw Electric/Shaw Systems & Integration 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eggs - Lake Odessa MI 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kalamazoo Manufacturing 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brose Jefferson Inc 275 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 Dickson_EX 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Related Management Company LP French Apartments 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Floyd Cherokee Medical Center 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pneumatic Scale Angelus 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Winter Haven 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Mexico Oncology Hematology Consultants, Ltd.. 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hayward Laboratories Inc. 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seneca Foods Corporation 275 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: 2024, 2023. 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.