Silicone rubber manufacturing · Michigan

Michigan Operations - Hemlock HIMS Plant

Hemlock, MI · ~192 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Michigan Operations - Hemlock HIMS Plant runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Silicone rubber manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Michigan Operations - Hemlock HIMS Plant: 0.5 TCR = 15% of Silicone rubber manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Michigan Operations - Hemlock HIMS Plant safety composite

Michigan Operations - Hemlock HIMS Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.48 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%).

Rising injury rate

Michigan Operations - Hemlock HIMS Plant: 0.0 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2018

Michigan Operations - Hemlock HIMS Plant's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325212 · Hemlock, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 15% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK P92
  • PHOTO Firestone Polymers L…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~192 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Firestone Polymers Lake Charles Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Michigan Operations - Hemlock HIMS Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Michigan Operations - Hemlock HIMS Plant averages 0.5 TCR (15% of the Silicone rubber manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Michigan Operations - Hemlock HIMS Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Michigan Operations - Hemlock HIMS Plant falls in its industry

90 Silicone rubber manufacturing establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Michigan Operations - Hemlock HIMS Plant (192 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Michigan Operations - Hemlock HIMS Plant
Michigan Operations - Hemlock HIMS Plant (192 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Michigan Operations - Hemlock HIMS Plant has more employees than the Silicone rubber manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2018 1.4 0.5 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325212 · MI · Hemlock

90 Silicone rubber manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 9 employers in Hemlock, 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 Firestone Polymers Lake Charles Plant 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Denka Performance Elastomer LLC 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zeon Chemicals L.P. Texas Plant 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chattanooga Plant 1 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lakeshore Global 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE Distribution Plant 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cannon-Muskegon Corporation 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thumb Tool & Engineering 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hemlock Semiconductor Operations, LLC 1,268 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hemlcok Semiconductor Operations, LLC 752 FTE
CITY-NEAR Qualified Staffing onsite at Hemlock Semiconductor 752 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dupont Michigan Operations - HIMS Plant 211 FTE
NAT-TCR Hydro - Phoenix Fab Center 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR McDermott International - Gulfport 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Grande Home Office 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ViewRay Mountain View 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bethany Woods Nursing & Rehab 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lucas-Milhaupt 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales - Smoky Mountains 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conn-Weld Industries Inc Princeton 192 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, 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.