Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing · Michigan

Litehouse Inc. - Lowell

Lowell, MI · ~373 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Litehouse Inc. - Lowell runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Litehouse Inc. - Lowell: 6.1 TCR = 150% of Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Litehouse Inc. - Lowell safety composite

Litehouse Inc. - Lowell scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

−2.0

2016→2019

Litehouse Inc. - Lowell injury rate improved

Litehouse Inc. - Lowell's TCR fell 2.0 from 6.4 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.4 · 2017=7.6 · 2019=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 150% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Stratas Foods
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 70 inj
  • SIZE ~373 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stratas Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Litehouse Inc. - Lowell in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Litehouse Inc. - Lowell averages 6.1 TCR (150% of the Cheese based salad dressing manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Litehouse Inc. - Lowell TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2017=7.6 · 2019=4.4 · BLS 4.1

Where Litehouse Inc. - Lowell falls in its industry

134 Cheese based salad dressing ma establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #4 safest of 4 Cheese based salad dressing ma employers in Michigan.

Litehouse Inc. - Lowell (373 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 Inc. - Lowell
Litehouse Inc. - Lowell (373 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Litehouse Inc. - Lowell has more employees than the Cheese based salad dressing manufacturin 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
2019 4.4 4.0 18 0 0
2017 7.6 7.1 32 0 0
2016 6.4 4.8 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · MI · Lowell

134 Cheese based salad dressing 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 Stratas Foods 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mizkan America 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plochman 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pepper Source LTD. 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bell's Brewery 373 FTE
STATE-SIZE GHSP - Grand Haven 373 FTE
STATE-SIZE DTW - Airport United Airlines Offices 373 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alpine Power Systems 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell Area Schools 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Litehouse Foods Inc 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR 205 - Lowell 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Attwood Lowell 271 FTE
NAT-TCR Sutter Outpatient Services, LLC (600-90) 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Seafood City Supermarket - San Jose 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 450660-Blacksburg Po 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 418356-Tarentum Po 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alorica Business Solution 373 FTE
NAT-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MSN4 373 FTE
NAT-SIZE Poinciana Medical Center 373 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foothills Gateway - Headquarters 373 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: 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.