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

HI-LEX Litchfield (HCIC)

Litchfield, MI · ~126 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HI-LEX Litchfield (HCIC) runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Power window and door lock systems, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

HI-LEX Litchfield (HCIC): 3.4 TCR = 63% of Power window and door lock systems, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HI-LEX Litchfield (HCIC) safety composite

HI-LEX Litchfield (HCIC) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

Rising injury rate

HI-LEX Litchfield (HCIC): 1.6 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2023

HI-LEX Litchfield (HCIC)'s TCR rose 3.6 from 1.6 in 2022 to 5.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 3.4 · 63% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #29/36
  • PHOTO American Mitsuba Cor…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~126 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Mitsuba Corporation/Michigan (0.0 TCR gap)

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HI-LEX Litchfield (HCIC) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HI-LEX Litchfield (HCIC) averages 3.4 TCR (63% 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 Litchfield (HCIC) TCR series: 2022=1.6 · 2023=5.2 · BLS 5.4

Where HI-LEX Litchfield (HCIC) falls in its industry

216 Power window and door lock sys establishments

Safer than 22% 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 #29 safest of 36 Power window and door lock sys employers in Michigan.

HI-LEX Litchfield (HCIC) (126 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Litchfield (HCIC)
HI-LEX Litchfield (HCIC) (126 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 162 employees and a TCR of 1.9

HI-LEX Litchfield (HCIC) has fewer 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 5.2 3.5 6 0 0
2022 1.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336320 · MI · Litchfield

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 · 9 employers in Litchfield, 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 American Mitsuba Corporation/Michigan 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Truck-Lite Co., LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Hampshire Division of Whelen Engineering Co Inc, 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NIDEC Elesys Americas Corp. 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allied Power Services - DTE, Fermi Station 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE PK Contracting, LLC. Troy 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michigan 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pontiac Ceiling & Partition, LLC 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hi-Lex Controls, Inc. (HCIL) 422 FTE
CITY-NEAR HI-LEX Litchfield (HCIL) 384 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raker-Roberta's Young Plants 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR HI-LEX CONTROLS, IN (HCIC) 103 FTE
NAT-TCR KVC KY Morehead 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR QSI Glen Allen 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Southington #203 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR R & J Sheet Metal, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nashua - Uniclean - 045 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Health 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #41 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE North America : Klamath Falls 126 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.