Hospital furniture, specialized (e.g., hospital beds, operating room furniture) · Michigan

Tekna

Kalamazoo, MI · ~64 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tekna runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospital furniture, specialized (e.g., hospital beds, operating room furniture) workplace, earning a grade C.

Tekna: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Hospital furniture, specialized (e.g., hospital beds, operating room furniture) BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tekna safety composite

Tekna scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−3.6

2016→2021

Tekna injury rate improved

Tekna's TCR fell 3.6 from 3.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.6 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · Kalamazoo, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #16/20
  • PHOTO Silicon Valley
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Silicon Valley (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tekna in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tekna averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the Hospital furniture, specialized (e.g., hospital beds, operating room furniture) BLS benchmark).

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

Tekna TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Tekna falls in its industry

555 Hospital furniture, specialize establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 20 Hospital furniture, specialize employers in Michigan.

Tekna (64 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Tekna
Tekna (64 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Tekna has fewer employees than the Hospital furniture, specialized (e.g., h median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.2 0.0 2 0 0
2019 4.3 0.0 3 0 0
2018 2.9 0.0 2 0 0
2017 4.4 1.5 3 0 0
2016 3.6 3.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · MI · Kalamazoo

555 Hospital furniture, specialized (e.g., hospital beds, operating room furniture) 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 Silicon Valley 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cooper Surgical, Inc- Stafford TX 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spyder Manufacturing, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PGI INC 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lapeer Service Center 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gas Construction Royal Oak 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE First Contracting, Inc. 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premiere Property Services, LLC 64 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 Western Region 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Citizen Hotel 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gilchrist & Soames Plainfield, IN 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Willow Bend Nursing & Rehabilitation 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sutter Medical Center Sacramento (110-1011) 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sutter Care at Home (247-SIPS) 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bilfinger Industrial Services, Inc 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE SB Butler School 64 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.