Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing · Michigan

Novares LLC -Howell

Howell, MI · ~130 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Novares LLC -Howell runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Novares LLC -Howell: 0.9 TCR = 29% of Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Novares LLC -Howell safety composite

Novares LLC -Howell scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2022→2023

Novares LLC -Howell injury rate improved

Novares LLC -Howell's TCR fell 0.5 from 1.2 in 2022 to 0.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.2 · 2023=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Howell, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 29% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #11/218
  • PHOTO C-Line Products - Ma…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: C-Line Products - Main Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Novares LLC -Howell in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Novares LLC -Howell averages 0.9 TCR (29% of the Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Novares LLC -Howell TCR series: 2022=1.2 · 2023=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Novares LLC -Howell falls in its industry

2,838 Motor vehicle moldings and ext establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 218 Motor vehicle moldings and ext employers in Michigan.

Novares LLC -Howell (130 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Novares LLC -Howell
Novares LLC -Howell (130 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Novares LLC -Howell has more employees than the Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, p median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2022 1.2 1.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · MI · Howell

2,838 Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 94 employers in Howell, 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 C-Line Products - Main Office 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR LifeMade 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Texas Stone Designs 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aeromat Plastics 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Randazzo Mechanical Heating & Cooling 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE BYERS D.C. DETROIT INC 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.L. Adams Plastics, Inc. 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Jordan Plastics Beaverton Facility 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thai Summit America 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR Livingston County 721 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Joseph Mercy Livingston Hospital 708 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trinity Health St. Joseph Mercy Livingston 488 FTE
NAT-TCR Energy Transportation, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bender Electronics, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR E. Sam Jones Distributor, Inc. Atlanta Headquarters 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate Office 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fusion Imaging 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Campus 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sabah International Incorporated 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Republic Wire, Inc 130 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. 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.