Power window and door lock systems, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Michigan

HI-LEX Battle Creek (HIA)

Battle Creek, MI · ~331 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HI-LEX Battle Creek (HIA) runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Power window and door lock systems, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

HI-LEX Battle Creek (HIA): 2.0 TCR = 37% of Power window and door lock systems, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HI-LEX Battle Creek (HIA) safety composite

HI-LEX Battle Creek (HIA) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−1.0

2022→2023

HI-LEX Battle Creek (HIA) injury rate improved

HI-LEX Battle Creek (HIA)'s TCR fell 1.0 from 2.5 in 2022 to 1.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.5 · 2023=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336320 · Battle Creek, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 37% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #18/36
  • PHOTO Proterra Powered 1
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~331 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Proterra Powered 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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HI-LEX Battle Creek (HIA) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HI-LEX Battle Creek (HIA) averages 2.0 TCR (37% of the Power window and door lock systems, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HI-LEX Battle Creek (HIA) TCR series: 2022=2.5 · 2023=1.5 · BLS 5.4

Where HI-LEX Battle Creek (HIA) falls in its industry

216 Power window and door lock sys establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 36 Power window and door lock sys employers in Michigan.

HI-LEX Battle Creek (HIA) (331 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 162 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate HI-LEX Battle Creek (HIA)
HI-LEX Battle Creek (HIA) (331 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 162 employees and a TCR of 1.9

HI-LEX Battle Creek (HIA) has more employees than the Power window and door lock systems, auto median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2023 1.5 1.2 5 0 0
2022 2.5 1.5 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336320 · MI · Battle Creek

216 Power window and door lock systems, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 161 employers in Battle Creek, 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 Proterra Powered 1 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hella Electronics Corporation 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sl Tennessee, Lighting Division 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAL MUSCLE SHOALS PLANT 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kalamazoo MI (Mill) 331 FTE
STATE-SIZE H.B. Fuller 331 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2010 331 FTE
STATE-SIZE MyMichigan Medical Center West Branch 331 FTE
CITY-NEAR Denso Manufacturing of Michigan 2,702 FTE
CITY-NEAR BRONSON BATTLE CREEK 1,530 FTE
CITY-NEAR Battle Creek HQ Corporate Office 1,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR I I Stanley Co., Inc. 729 FTE
NAT-TCR Cameron Warehouse 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR EPIC Piping - San Marcos 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Machado Construction 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mega Circuit, INc 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 410 Lakeville Rd 331 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Region : Huu 331 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amtpa (Lcs) 331 FTE
NAT-SIZE This Fool Production 331 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: 2023, 2022. 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.