Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing · Michigan

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant 18

Kalamazoo, MI · ~278 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant 18 runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant 18: 3.8 TCR = 114% of Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant 18 safety composite

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant 18 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.9

2018→2022

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant 18 injury rate improved

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant 18's TCR fell 2.9 from 5.5 in 2018 to 2.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.5 · 2019=5.2 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Kalamazoo, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 114% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #111/218
  • PHOTO South Deerfield Faci…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~278 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: South Deerfield Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Summit Polymers Inc - Plant 18 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Summit Polymers Inc - Plant 18 averages 3.8 TCR (114% of the Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant 18 TCR series: 2018=5.5 · 2019=5.2 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Summit Polymers Inc - Plant 18 falls in its industry

2,838 Motor vehicle moldings and ext establishments

Safer than 46% 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 #111 safest of 218 Motor vehicle moldings and ext employers in Michigan.

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant 18 (278 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Summit Polymers Inc - Plant 18
Summit Polymers Inc - Plant 18 (278 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Summit Polymers Inc - Plant 18 has more employees than the Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, p 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
2022 2.6 1.6 8 0 0
2021 1.8 1.4 4 0 0
2019 5.2 4.8 15 0 0
2018 5.5 4.0 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · MI · Kalamazoo

2,838 Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR South Deerfield Facility 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Surteco 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR M R Products, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carfair Composites USA 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corby Energy Services, Inc. 278 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cadillac Asphalt LLC 278 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michigan Rubber Products 278 FTE
STATE-SIZE DBN Tool Die 278 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 389 - Marlboro 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 504 - Newark-DE 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 734 - Fayetteville-NY 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 776 - Draper 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Encompass health rehabilitation hospital of toms river 278 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home Delivery Incontinent Supplies Inc. 278 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peak Oilfield Services, LLC 278 FTE
NAT-SIZE NYBC-LIC 278 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.