Television housings, plastics, manufacturing · Michigan

Summit Polymers Inc. P18

Name: Summit Polymers Inc. P18 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Kalamazoo, MI · ~274 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Summit Polymers Inc. P18 runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Television housings, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Summit Polymers Inc. P18: 3.3 TCR = 99% of Television housings, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Summit Polymers Inc. P18 safety composite

Summit Polymers Inc. P18 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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).

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Summit Polymers Inc. P18: 1.7 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2024

Summit Polymers Inc. P18's TCR rose 3.0 from 1.7 in 2023 to 4.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Kalamazoo, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 99% of ind

DART 3.3 DART
RANK #92/218
PHOTO Ecore International …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 18 inj
SIZE ~274 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ecore International - York (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Summit Polymers Inc. P18 averages 3.3 TCR (99% of the Television housings, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Summit Polymers Inc. P18 TCR series: 2023=1.7 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Summit Polymers Inc. P18 falls in its industry

2,838 Television housings, plastics, establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #92 safest of 218 Television housings, plastics, employers in Michigan.

Summit Polymers Inc. P18 (274 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Summit Polymers Inc. P18 has more employees than the Television housings, plastics, manufactu median and a lower 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
2024	4.8	3.3	13	0	0
2023	1.7	1.7	5	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · MI · Kalamazoo

2,838 Television housings, plastics, 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Ecore International - York	YORK, PA	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	USA Vinyl	GROVEPORT, OH	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Barden Assembly - Trim	KENTWOOD, MI	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Parkway Products, LLC SEN	SENECA, SC	3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	GR-Oliver Healthcare Packaging	GRAND RAPIDS	274 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Flat Rock Metal,Inc.	FLAT ROCK	274 FTE
STATE-SIZE	International Extrusions, Inc.	GARDEN CITY	274 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Howmet - Whitehall Plant 5	WHITEHALL	274 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bronson Methodist Hospital	Kalamazoo	4,909 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pfizer Kalamazoo - Portage Road	Kalamazoo	3,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Stryker Instruments	Kalamazoo	2,240 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1855-MIKAL1	Kalamazoo	2,103 FTE
NAT-TCR	West Roofing Systems Inc	Lagrange, OH	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	709 Mahomet	Mahomet, IL	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	B&B Glass	Dallas, TX	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	07 Omaha, NE	Omaha, NE	3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	North Perimeter Contractors LLC	Atlanta, GA	274 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lalaf - Lafayette	Lafayette, LA	274 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Masbo - South Boston	Boston, MA	274 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Pines at Davidson, Inc.	Davidson, NC	274 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.