Courier Services Except by Air · Michigan

Houghton Center (Mihgt)

Houghton, MI · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houghton Center (Mihgt) runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade C.

Houghton Center (Mihgt): 6.4 TCR = 98% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houghton Center (Mihgt) safety composite

Houghton Center (Mihgt) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 4.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

Houghton Center (Mihgt): 4.4 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2018

Houghton Center (Mihgt)'s TCR rose 3.9 from 4.4 in 2017 to 8.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Houghton, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 6.4 · 98% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #74/202
  • PHOTO FedEx 1500 WESTPARK …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FedEx 1500 WESTPARK DRIVE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houghton Center (Mihgt) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houghton Center (Mihgt) averages 6.4 TCR (98% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Houghton Center (Mihgt) TCR series: 2017=4.4 · 2018=8.3 · BLS 6.5

Where Houghton Center (Mihgt) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #74 safest of 202 Courier Services Except by Air employers in Michigan.

Houghton Center (Mihgt) (29 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Houghton Center (Mihgt)
Houghton Center (Mihgt) (29 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Houghton Center (Mihgt) has fewer employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2018 8.3 4.2 2 0 0
2017 4.4 4.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · MI · Houghton

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air 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 FedEx 1500 WESTPARK DRIVE 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - BDU5 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR LA GRANGE (GALAG) 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 100360021 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE City Aluminum Foundry Co. 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE premier panel company 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Packing Co. Hart 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE CMich Woldt Dining Hall 29 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 La Grange (Galag) 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Charlottesville (Vacha) 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 0371 - South San Antonio, Tx 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunline Civil Construction, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Delhi (Ladel) 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alliance (Neall) 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlsbad Center (Nmcar) 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hailey (Idhai) 29 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: 2018, 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.