Elementary and secondary schools · Michigan

Highlander Way Middle School

Howell, MI · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Highlander Way Middle School runs at 970% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Highlander Way Middle School: 13.6 TCR = 970% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highlander Way Middle School safety composite

Highlander Way Middle School scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−22.3

2016→2017

Highlander Way Middle School injury rate improved

Highlander Way Middle School's TCR fell 22.3 from 24.7 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 24.7 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=24.7 · 2017=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Howell, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.6 · 970% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #136/142
  • PHOTO South Education Center
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: South Education Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Highlander Way Middle School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highlander Way Middle School averages 13.6 TCR (970% of the Elementary and secondary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Highlander Way Middle School TCR series: 2016=24.7 · 2017=2.5 · BLS 1.4

Where Highlander Way Middle School falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #136 safest of 142 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Michigan.

Highlander Way Middle School (71 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Highlander Way Middle School
Highlander Way Middle School (71 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Highlander Way Middle School has fewer employees than the Elementary and secondary schools median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2017 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2016 24.7 0.0 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MI · Howell

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools 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 South Education Center 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR District Wide 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR UCP- (BECA) Bailes Early Childhood Academy 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tidewater Rivermont School 13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Applegate Dairy LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE FCC Construction Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weiss Construction Co., LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE IHRone 71 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 Catholic Charities New Hampshire 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR M&M - Staples Operations 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Belle Plaine ISD#716 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Raven CLI Construction 13.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Garden City Container 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Hampshire Location #09 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Philips Lighting Mountain Top RDC 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kincaid Ready Mix 71 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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