Garden power equipment stores · Michigan

Steensma Lawn & Power Eq

Kalamazoo, MI · ~78 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Steensma Lawn & Power Eq runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garden power equipment stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Steensma Lawn & Power Eq: 5.8 TCR = 171% of Garden power equipment stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Steensma Lawn & Power Eq safety composite

Steensma Lawn & Power Eq scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Steensma Lawn & Power Eq: 4.1 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2023

Steensma Lawn & Power Eq's TCR rose 3.5 from 4.1 in 2021 to 7.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444210 · Kalamazoo, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 171% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO Rupert
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rupert (0.0 TCR gap)

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Steensma Lawn & Power Eq in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Steensma Lawn & Power Eq averages 5.8 TCR (171% of the Garden power equipment stores BLS benchmark).

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

Steensma Lawn & Power Eq TCR series: 2021=4.1 · 2023=7.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Steensma Lawn & Power Eq falls in its industry

136 Garden power equipment stores establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 10 Garden power equipment stores employers in Michigan.

Steensma Lawn & Power Eq (78 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 28 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 050100150 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Steensma Lawn & Power Eq
Steensma Lawn & Power Eq (78 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 28 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Steensma Lawn & Power Eq has more employees than the Garden power equipment stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 7.6 7.6 6 0 0
2021 4.1 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444210 · MI · Kalamazoo

136 Garden power equipment stores 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 Rupert 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Polkton 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TriGreen Equipment Cullman 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wengers Farm Machinery, Inc. 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Henry Mast Greenhouses Inc. 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Joseph Office and Service Center 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Signal Restoration USA 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Enclosure Company, LLC 78 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 Hillsboro Branch 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Compassus GR Philadelphia Fort Washington 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Summit Oaks Residential Treatment Center 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Versalift Silva, LLC dba Versalift Forestry 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mudd Inc. 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lumbermen's Indiana 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sanderson Farms McComb Hatchery 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE NAPP Asheboro - 005 78 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.

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

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