Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Illinois

AAM Metal Forming Chicago Facility 1

Chicago, IL · ~318 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AAM Metal Forming Chicago Facility 1 runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade D.

AAM Metal Forming Chicago Facility 1: 5.5 TCR = 165% of Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AAM Metal Forming Chicago Facility 1 safety composite

AAM Metal Forming Chicago Facility 1 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−1.6

2016→2017

AAM Metal Forming Chicago Facility 1 injury rate improved

AAM Metal Forming Chicago Facility 1's TCR fell 1.6 from 6.3 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.3 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.3 · 2017=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 165% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #8/19
  • PHOTO Forge
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~318 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Forge (0.0 TCR gap)

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AAM Metal Forming Chicago Facility 1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AAM Metal Forming Chicago Facility 1 averages 5.5 TCR (165% of the Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

AAM Metal Forming Chicago Facility 1 TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where AAM Metal Forming Chicago Facility 1 falls in its industry

241 Forgings made from purchased i establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 19 Forgings made from purchased i employers in Illinois.

AAM Metal Forming Chicago Facility 1 (318 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate AAM Metal Forming Chicago Facility 1
AAM Metal Forming Chicago Facility 1 (318 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

AAM Metal Forming Chicago Facility 1 has more employees than the Forgings made from purchased iron or ste median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2017 4.6 4.1 17 0 0
2016 6.3 5.7 23 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · IL · Chicago

241 Forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 Forge 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hirschvogel Incorporated 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Drop Forge 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SIFCO Forge 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Scheck Mechanical Corporation 318 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bag Makers, Inc 318 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3893 318 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL4 318 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Martin Overhead Garage Door Service Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Harrisburg Distribution Center 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hattie Larlham Community Services 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR SpringHill Suites Flagstaff 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE SMG - U.S. Bank Stadium 318 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asheville (Ncash) 318 FTE
NAT-SIZE OKC Office 318 FTE
NAT-SIZE AAM New Castle 318 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.