Retail · Michigan

172 - Howell

Howell, MI · ~274 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

172 - Howell runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Retail workplace, earning a grade B.

172 - Howell: 2.3 TCR = 67% of Retail BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

172 - Howell safety composite

172 - Howell scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

172 - Howell: 1.4 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2024

172 - Howell's TCR rose 1.7 from 1.4 in 2021 to 3.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 455211 · Howell, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 67% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #52/141
  • PHOTO 217 - Holland Twp
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~274 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 217 - Holland Twp (0.0 TCR gap)

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172 - Howell in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 172 - Howell averages 2.3 TCR (67% of the Retail BLS benchmark).

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

172 - Howell TCR series: 2021=1.4 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.4

Where 172 - Howell falls in its industry

1,491 Retail establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 141 Retail employers in Michigan.

172 - Howell (274 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 260 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 100200300400500600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate 172 - Howell
172 - Howell (274 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 260 employees and a TCR of 4.8

172 - Howell has more employees than the Retail median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 3.2 1.1 6 0 0
2023 1.6 1.1 3 0 0
2022 2.9 2.9 6 0 0
2021 1.4 1.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

455211 · MI · Howell

1,491 Retail employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 94 employers in Howell, 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 217 - Holland Twp 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 143 - N High St Orange Twp 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 270 - Alma 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 312 - Plainfield Ave GR 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE GR-Oliver Healthcare Packaging 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE Summit Polymers Inc. P18 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flat Rock Metal,Inc. 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Extrusions, Inc. 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thai Summit America 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR Livingston County 721 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Joseph Mercy Livingston Hospital 708 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trinity Health St. Joseph Mercy Livingston 488 FTE
NAT-TCR New Hope Market LLC 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TPI East 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicago Tube and Iron Company Romeoville Fabrication 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Piggly Wiggly #28/Ace #15356 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Continental Tire the Americas, LLC 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guardian Corsicana 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Direct Transport, Inc 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toyota of Knoxville, Inc. 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.