Chemical milling job shops · Illinois

Abrasive Form

Glendale Heights, IL · ~33 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Abrasive Form runs at 255% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chemical milling job shops workplace, earning a grade F.

Abrasive Form: 8.4 TCR = 255% of Chemical milling job shops BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Abrasive Form safety composite

Abrasive Form scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Abrasive Form held a steady TCR band

Abrasive Form's TCR held near 0.2 from 5.2 in 2020 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.2 · 2022=13.8 · 2023=9.6 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Glendale Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 255% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #95/103
  • PHOTO UltraTech Aerospace,…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UltraTech Aerospace, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Abrasive Form in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Abrasive Form averages 8.4 TCR (255% of the Chemical milling job shops BLS benchmark).

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

Abrasive Form TCR series: 2020=5.2 · 2022=13.8 · 2023=9.6 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Abrasive Form falls in its industry

1,821 Chemical milling job shops establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #95 safest of 103 Chemical milling job shops employers in Illinois.

Abrasive Form (33 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Abrasive Form
Abrasive Form (33 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Abrasive Form has fewer employees than the Chemical milling job shops 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 5.0 5.0 3 0 0
2023 9.6 7.7 5 0 0
2022 13.8 6.9 4 0 0
2020 5.2 5.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · IL · Glendale Heights

1,821 Chemical milling job shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 85 employers in Glendale Heights, 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 UltraTech Aerospace, Inc 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Toth Industries Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CBS Boring and Machine Company, Inc. Location 1 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lindsay Machine Works Inc 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE PharmaCann Dwight 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Konos 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Farm Shop 208 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG Will County Generating Station 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR UChicago Medicine AdventHealth GlenOaks 626 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventist GlenOaks Hospital 531 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAIN 381 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kronos Foods 380 FTE
NAT-TCR Paragon Tempered Glass - Niles 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale MacArthur Park 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tom A. Finch Community YMCA 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 5066 - Brooksville 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Top 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bets Choice Roofing East LLC 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Beer 33 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, 2020. 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.