Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire · Michigan

Howard City

Howard City, MI · ~45 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howard City runs at 458% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade F.

Howard City: 15.1 TCR = 458% of Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howard City safety composite

Howard City scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−32.6

2022→2024

Howard City injury rate improved

Howard City's TCR fell 32.6 from 32.6 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 32.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=32.6 · 2023=12.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · Howard City, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.1 · 458% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Kaines West Michigan…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kaines West Michigan Co (0.6 TCR gap)

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Howard City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howard City averages 15.1 TCR (458% of the Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

Howard City TCR series: 2022=32.6 · 2023=12.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Howard City falls in its industry

270 Cable, noninsulated wire, made establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Cable, noninsulated wire, made employers in Michigan.

Howard City (45 employees, TCR 15.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Howard City
Howard City (45 employees, TCR 15.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Howard City has fewer employees than the Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purc median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 12.7 12.7 6 0 0
2022 32.6 19.6 3 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · MI · Howard City

270 Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 5 employers in Howard City, 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 Kaines West Michigan Co 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maine 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Master Halco Olney Mfg 076 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jesco Industries, INC 12.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grand Junction Office 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeWeerdt Poultry Farm, LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clare SC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas Sebold and Associates, Inc. 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolverine Worldwide - Distribution Center 55 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Leppinks Howard City 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR DTW Transport, LLC 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dean Transportation, Inc. - Howard City 23 FTE
NAT-TCR BDRFL-Edgewater 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR First In Cargo 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Montgomery SNF Operator, LLC 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR LLM Delivery, LLC 15.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bunn Excavating Inc 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE V&S Delaware Galvanizing LLC 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE JAC Logistics LLC 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Xanitos EVS at Garfield Medical Center 45 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. 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.