Retail · Michigan

205 - Lowell

Lowell, MI · ~273 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

205 - Lowell runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Retail workplace, earning a grade B.

205 - Lowell: 2.5 TCR = 73% of Retail BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

205 - Lowell safety composite

205 - Lowell scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

205 - Lowell: 1.7 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2024

205 - Lowell's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.7 in 2021 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 73% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #73/141
  • PHOTO 0376 - AUBURN HILLS …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~273 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0376 - AUBURN HILLS MI WHSE (0.0 TCR gap)

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205 - Lowell in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 205 - Lowell averages 2.5 TCR (73% of the Retail BLS benchmark).

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

205 - Lowell TCR series: 2021=1.7 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.4

Where 205 - Lowell falls in its industry

1,491 Retail establishments

Safer than 86% 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 #73 safest of 141 Retail employers in Michigan.

205 - Lowell (273 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 205 - Lowell
205 - Lowell (273 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 260 employees and a TCR of 4.8

205 - Lowell 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 2.9 2.3 5 0 0
2023 1.2 1.2 2 0 0
2022 4.2 4.2 8 0 0
2021 1.7 1.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

455211 · MI · Lowell

1,491 Retail employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 32 employers in Lowell, 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 0376 - AUBURN HILLS MI WHSE 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 064 - Saline Rd Ann Arbor 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 216 - Standale 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 274 - Grafton WI 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Detroit Housing & Revitalization Department 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraft Heinz Company - Holland, MI 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cooper Standard-Oscoda Plant 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE ASMO Michigan 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell Area Schools 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Litehouse Inc. - Lowell 373 FTE
CITY-NEAR Litehouse Foods Inc 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR Attwood Lowell 271 FTE
NAT-TCR Bedford Alzheimer's Care Center 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Turkey Hill LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Danville Regional Medical Center - EVS 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Reno Dry 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dietz and Watson Baltimore 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE Box Board Products 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE Refresco-Joplin 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manitou Equipment America LLC - Yankton 273 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.

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

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