Mail and Parcel Delivery · Michigan

254500-Houghton Po

Houghton, MI · ~31 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

254500-Houghton Po runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mail and Parcel Delivery workplace, earning a grade D.

254500-Houghton Po: 7.9 TCR = 175% of Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

254500-Houghton Po safety composite

254500-Houghton Po scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

254500-Houghton Po: 8.2 → 12.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 12.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.53× in 2022

254500-Houghton Po's TCR rose 3.8 from 8.2 in 2017 to 12.1 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 491110 · Houghton, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.9 · 175% of ind

  • DART 12.1 DART
  • RANK #174/464
  • PHOTO CITY HEIGHTS_1358094
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CITY HEIGHTS_1358094 (0.0 TCR gap)

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254500-Houghton Po in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 254500-Houghton Po averages 7.9 TCR (175% of the Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS benchmark).

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

254500-Houghton Po TCR series: 2017=8.2 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=7.8 · 2022=12.1 · BLS 4.5

Where 254500-Houghton Po falls in its industry

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #174 safest of 464 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers in Michigan.

254500-Houghton Po (31 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8 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 050100150 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 254500-Houghton Po
254500-Houghton Po (31 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8

254500-Houghton Po has fewer employees than the Mail and Parcel Delivery median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.8. 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
2022 12.1 12.1 2 1 0
2021 7.8 3.9 2 0 0
2020 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2017 8.2 4.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

491110 · MI · Houghton

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 19 employers in Houghton, 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 CITY HEIGHTS_1358094 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MIDDLE VILLAGE_1372933 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR HDA1 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 243604-HOPKINTON PO 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Greenhouse, Inc. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Production 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.B. Satkowiak's City Sewer Cleaners 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Melching Inc. 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2192 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2192 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rice Center 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Somero Enterprises, Inc. - Michigan 124 FTE
NAT-TCR 010794-Bhm-Cahaba Heights Br 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 118505-Seffner Po 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 113827-Hia-Carrier Anx 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 127403-Rincon Po 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 562210-Delavan Po 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE 568010-Sturgeon Bay Po 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE 261710-Circle Pines Po 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE 268080-Rosemount Po 31 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, 2020, 2017. 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.