Salad dressings manufacturing · Michigan

Litehouse Foods Inc

Lowell, MI · ~320 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Litehouse Foods Inc runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Salad dressings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Litehouse Foods Inc: 5.0 TCR = 123% of Salad dressings manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Litehouse Foods Inc safety composite

Litehouse Foods Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.44 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.3

2022→2024

Litehouse Foods Inc injury rate improved

Litehouse Foods Inc's TCR fell 5.3 from 7.8 in 2022 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=7.8 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311941 · Lowell, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 123% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Reed Food Technology
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~320 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reed Food Technology (0.0 TCR gap)

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Litehouse Foods Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Litehouse Foods Inc averages 5.0 TCR (123% of the Salad dressings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Litehouse Foods Inc TCR series: 2022=7.8 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 4.1

Where Litehouse Foods Inc falls in its industry

134 Salad dressings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #3 safest of 4 Salad dressings manufacturing employers in Michigan.

Litehouse Foods Inc (320 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Litehouse Foods Inc
Litehouse Foods Inc (320 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Litehouse Foods Inc has more employees than the Salad dressings manufacturing 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
2024 2.5 1.4 6 1 0
2023 4.8 4.4 12 1 0
2022 7.8 3.3 23 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · MI · Lowell

134 Salad dressings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 32 employers in Lowell, 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 Reed Food Technology 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beaverton Foods 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plochman Inc 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kens Foods Lebanon 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Summit Polymers Inc - Plant Five 320 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayco Shelby 320 FTE
STATE-SIZE The HT Hackney C 320 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer 36 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell Area Schools 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Litehouse Inc. - Lowell 373 FTE
CITY-NEAR 205 - Lowell 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Attwood Lowell 271 FTE
NAT-TCR Arrigo CDJR of Ft Pierce 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lewisville 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Peters Logistic Solutions LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Legacy Restoration HQ 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE AerSale Goodyear Aircraft MRO Operations Center 320 FTE
NAT-SIZE District Office East 320 FTE
NAT-SIZE Novant Health Clemmons Medical Center 320 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Shoreview 320 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.