Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing · Michigan

Special-Lite Benton Harbor

Benton Harbor, MI · ~71 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Special-Lite Benton Harbor runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Special-Lite Benton Harbor: 3.8 TCR = 116% of Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Special-Lite Benton Harbor safety composite

Special-Lite Benton Harbor scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Special-Lite Benton Harbor: 0.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2024

Special-Lite Benton Harbor's TCR rose 4.8 from 0.0 in 2021 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Benton Harbor, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 116% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #113/218
  • PHOTO Faith Plastics LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Faith Plastics LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Special-Lite Benton Harbor in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Special-Lite Benton Harbor averages 3.8 TCR (116% of the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Special-Lite Benton Harbor TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Special-Lite Benton Harbor falls in its industry

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #113 safest of 218 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib employers in Michigan.

Special-Lite Benton Harbor (71 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 Special-Lite Benton Harbor
Special-Lite Benton Harbor (71 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Special-Lite Benton Harbor has fewer employees than the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, m median and a higher 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
2024 4.8 4.8 4 0 0
2023 4.1 3.1 4 0 0
2022 6.4 2.1 5 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · MI · Benton Harbor

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 74 employers in Benton Harbor, 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 Faith Plastics LLC 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR JOB CREATION LLC 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plastic Design International, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CJ Industries 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Applegate Dairy LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE FCC Construction Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weiss Construction Co., LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE IHRone 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2062 332 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gast Manufacturing 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2062 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Idex 281 FTE
NAT-TCR Arrow Exterminators 1102 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Becker Blacktop LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brevoort 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Overman USA, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Matthews, MO 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Synergy Flavors Innova LLC (Site 1) 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE G&M Electrical Contractors Co. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0091 Tempe 71 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.