Elementary and secondary schools · Michigan

Lowell Area Schools

Lowell, MI · ~420 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowell Area Schools runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Lowell Area Schools: 3.3 TCR = 236% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowell Area Schools safety composite

Lowell Area Schools scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Lowell Area Schools: 3.1 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.2× in 2023

Lowell Area Schools's TCR rose 0.8 from 3.1 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Lowell, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 3.3 · 236% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #68/142
  • PHOTO College Park Middle …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 68 inj
  • SIZE ~420 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: College Park Middle School (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowell Area Schools in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowell Area Schools averages 3.3 TCR (236% of the Elementary and secondary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Lowell Area Schools TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=1 · 2019=3.7 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=3.9 · BLS 1.4

Where Lowell Area Schools falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 56% 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 #68 safest of 142 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Michigan.

Lowell Area Schools (420 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Lowell Area Schools
Lowell Area Schools (420 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Lowell Area Schools has more employees than the Elementary and secondary schools median and a lower 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
2023 3.9 0.7 12 0 0
2022 4.3 0.7 13 0 0
2021 4.7 1.0 14 0 0
2019 3.7 1.4 11 0 0
2018 1.0 0.3 2 1 0
2017 2.5 0.3 7 0 0
2016 3.1 1.4 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MI · Lowell

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools 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 College Park Middle School 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elem School 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Township High School District #30 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Washburn 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alta Gas SEMCO Energy INC 420 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knape & Vogt Oak Manufacturing 420 FTE
STATE-SIZE L.E. Jones Company 420 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twelve Oaks 302 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Litehouse Inc. - Lowell 373 FTE
CITY-NEAR Litehouse Foods Inc 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR 205 - Lowell 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Attwood Lowell 271 FTE
NAT-TCR Sterling Foods 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Edith Location 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR E.F. Precision, LLC 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cetylite Industries, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE LATROBE 420 FTE
NAT-SIZE Los Angeles Refinery Wilmington 420 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royal Oaks Farms 420 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #12 420 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.