Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing · Illinois

Affton Fabricating & Welding Co., Inc.

Sauget, IL · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Affton Fabricating & Welding Co., Inc. runs at 436% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Affton Fabricating & Welding Co., Inc.: 14.4 TCR = 436% of Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Affton Fabricating & Welding Co., Inc. safety composite

Affton Fabricating & Welding Co., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Affton Fabricating & Welding Co., Inc.: 8.8 → 20.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 20.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2018

Affton Fabricating & Welding Co., Inc.'s TCR rose 11.2 from 8.8 in 2017 to 20.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Sauget, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.4 · 436% of ind

  • DART 12.0 DART
  • RANK #50/51
  • PHOTO REDD IRON INC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: REDD IRON INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Affton Fabricating & Welding Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Affton Fabricating & Welding Co., Inc. averages 14.4 TCR (436% of the Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Affton Fabricating & Welding Co., Inc. TCR series: 2017=8.8 · 2018=20 · BLS 3.3

Where Affton Fabricating & Welding Co., Inc. falls in its industry

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #50 safest of 51 Structural steel, fabricated, employers in Illinois.

Affton Fabricating & Welding Co., Inc. (23 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 Affton Fabricating & Welding Co., Inc.
Affton Fabricating & Welding Co., Inc. (23 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Affton Fabricating & Welding Co., Inc. has fewer employees than the Structural steel, fabricated, manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 20.0 12.0 5 0 0
2017 8.8 4.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · IL · Sauget

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 28 employers in Sauget, 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 REDD IRON INC 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rebarfab, Inc. 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 2 (1077 watson) 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 084 LCI 14.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oak Grove 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point Farms, LLC. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Office 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nokomis Area Fire Protection District 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SMO2 470 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZSST 438 FTE
CITY-NEAR Branding Iron Holdings 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR Afton Chemical Corporation - Sauget, IL 344 FTE
NAT-TCR Longmont (Colon) 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR San Leandro (Caslr) 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Country Pork LLP 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1233 Cumberland Street 14.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE TPC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tishler Industries Incorporated 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0614 - Yuba City, Ca 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0533 - Yakima, Wa 23 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, 2017. 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.