Aircraft flight instruments (except engine instruments) manufacturing · Michigan

L3 Aviation Products

Grand Rapids, MI · ~238 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

L3 Aviation Products runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Aircraft flight instruments (except engine instruments) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

L3 Aviation Products: 2.0 TCR = 59% of Aircraft flight instruments (except engine instruments) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

L3 Aviation Products safety composite

L3 Aviation Products scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

L3 Aviation Products held a steady TCR band

L3 Aviation Products's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.0 in 2017 to 1.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.0 · 2018=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334511 · Grand Rapids, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 59% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Raytheon_Point Mugu_…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~238 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Raytheon_Point Mugu_CA_NAWC (0.0 TCR gap)

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L3 Aviation Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows L3 Aviation Products averages 2.0 TCR (59% of the Aircraft flight instruments (except engine instruments) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

L3 Aviation Products TCR series: 2017=2 · 2018=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where L3 Aviation Products falls in its industry

388 Aircraft flight instruments (e establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.7.

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 Aircraft flight instruments (e employers in Michigan.

L3 Aviation Products (238 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 207 employees and a TCR of 0.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate L3 Aviation Products
L3 Aviation Products (238 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 207 employees and a TCR of 0.7

L3 Aviation Products has more employees than the Aircraft flight instruments (except engi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.7. 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
2018 1.9 0.8 4 1 0
2017 2.0 0.5 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334511 · MI · Grand Rapids

388 Aircraft flight instruments (except engine instruments) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 1,006 employers in Grand Rapids, 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 Raytheon_Point Mugu_CA_NAWC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FL, Orlando - 7022 TPC Dr. (CS-PSPC) 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eufaula 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leonardo DRS - Chesapeake 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE West Michigan Branch 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concord Tool & Manufacturing 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lapeer Industries 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer Inc 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA 9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Butterworth Hospital 7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR Field Sales Central 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Marion AL 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Hometown #735 (Aitkin, MN) 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Broadcast Electronics 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corporate 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elkay Wood Products Company Aurora 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE LSC Communications 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE OI 238 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.

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