Wrapping (i.e., packaging) machinery manufacturing · Michigan

Highlight Industries

Wyoming, MI · ~86 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Highlight Industries runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wrapping (i.e., packaging) machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Highlight Industries: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Wrapping (i.e., packaging) machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highlight Industries safety composite

Highlight Industries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.7

2018→2024

Highlight Industries injury rate improved

Highlight Industries's TCR fell 2.7 from 7.1 in 2018 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.1 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333993 · Wyoming, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO ID Technology-GA
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ID Technology-GA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Highlight Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highlight Industries averages 4.0 TCR (122% of the Wrapping (i.e., packaging) machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Highlight Industries TCR series: 2018=7.1 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Highlight Industries falls in its industry

269 Wrapping (i.e., packaging) mac establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 14 Wrapping (i.e., packaging) mac employers in Michigan.

Highlight Industries (86 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Highlight Industries
Highlight Industries (86 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Highlight Industries has more employees than the Wrapping (i.e., packaging) machinery man median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 4.4 1.5 3 0 0
2023 2.9 2.9 2 0 0
2022 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2018 7.1 2.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333993 · MI · Wyoming

269 Wrapping (i.e., packaging) machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 199 employers in Wyoming, 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 ID Technology-GA 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weiler Engineering Inc 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Family Fresh Pack, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR EDL Packaging 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rite-Way Plumbing & Heating Inc 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Mechanical 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nationwide Construction Group 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wendricks Truss Inc 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Metro Health Main Hospital 1,976 FTE
CITY-NEAR MI-WYOMI08-Home Office - Wyoming MI 1,542 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIGRN - GRAND RAPIDS HUB 1,494 FTE
CITY-NEAR GRAND RAPIDS HUB (MIGRN) 1,345 FTE
NAT-TCR Care One at Essex Park 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagleview Landing 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stoneham 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sacramento Windustrial 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heiberger Paving, Inc. 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Villara-Manteca 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metro Marble and Granite, LLC 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Coos Bay 86 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, 2018. 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.