Dusters, farm-type, manufacturing · Michigan

Root Lowell Mfg. Co.

Lowell, MI · ~87 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Root Lowell Mfg. Co. runs at 253% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dusters, farm-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Root Lowell Mfg. Co.: 8.3 TCR = 253% of Dusters, farm-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Root Lowell Mfg. Co. safety composite

Root Lowell Mfg. Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.65 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

−7.4

2016→2018

Root Lowell Mfg. Co. injury rate improved

Root Lowell Mfg. Co.'s TCR fell 7.4 from 12.0 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 12.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.0 · 2018=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Lowell, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 253% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Walker Manufacturing…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Walker Manufacturing Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Root Lowell Mfg. Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Root Lowell Mfg. Co. averages 8.3 TCR (253% of the Dusters, farm-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Root Lowell Mfg. Co. TCR series: 2016=12 · 2018=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Root Lowell Mfg. Co. falls in its industry

433 Dusters, farm-type, manufactur establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Dusters, farm-type, manufactur employers in Michigan.

Root Lowell Mfg. Co. (87 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Root Lowell Mfg. Co.
Root Lowell Mfg. Co. (87 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Root Lowell Mfg. Co. has more employees than the Dusters, farm-type, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 4.7 4.7 5 0 0
2016 12.0 12.0 7 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · MI · Lowell

433 Dusters, farm-type, 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 Walker Manufacturing Company 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant Tape 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dethmers Mfg Co 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grossi Fabrication, Inc. 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Leitz Farms LLC 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (IL) 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walkent 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE George W. Auch Company 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell Area Schools 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Litehouse Inc. - Lowell 373 FTE
CITY-NEAR Litehouse Foods Inc 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR 205 - Lowell 273 FTE
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #102 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SYGMA Denver 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal Hayes School for Special Children 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Solaris Healthcare Bayonet Point 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE TNC Operations, LLC D/B/A Tulsa Nursing Center 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frenchtown RTS 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE WVR - Grand Chicago Riverfront Sales 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Packers Chemical Holdings, LLC (doing buisiness as Packers Chemical) 87 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, 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.