Lead-in wires, electric lamp, made from purchased wire · Illinois

AFX Inc

Waukegan, IL · ~59 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AFX Inc runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Lead-in wires, electric lamp, made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade C.

AFX Inc: 3.4 TCR = 104% of Lead-in wires, electric lamp, made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AFX Inc safety composite

AFX Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.3

2022→2024

AFX Inc injury rate improved

AFX Inc's TCR fell 7.3 from 8.8 in 2022 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.8 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335110 · Waukegan, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 104% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P50
  • PHOTO General Electric Buc…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Electric Bucyrus Lamp Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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AFX Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AFX Inc averages 3.4 TCR (104% of the Lead-in wires, electric lamp, made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

AFX Inc TCR series: 2022=8.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where AFX Inc falls in its industry

16 Lead-in wires, electric lamp, establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
AFX Inc (59 employees, TCR 3.4) among 10 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 3.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 11 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Venture Lighting International, IncOSRAMFirst Light TechnologiesLamp PlantSuperior Quartz Products, Inc.Legacy Lighting : Bucyrus, OHOSRAM HillsboroAlta Advanced Technologies, Inc.Diamond Manufacturing of BlufftonEaster-OwensAFX Inc
AFX Inc (59 employees, TCR 3.4) among 10 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 3.5

AFX Inc has fewer employees than the Lead-in wires, electric lamp, made from median and a lower 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 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 8.8 8.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335110 · IL · Waukegan

16 Lead-in wires, electric lamp, made from purchased wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 141 employers in Waukegan, 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 General Electric Bucyrus Lamp Plant 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Legacy Lighting : Bucyrus, OH 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSRAM 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lamp Plant 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cornbelt Fire Protection District 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Exelon Nuclear Services & Training Center (STC) 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Electric Field Meter Services 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0G5 - Gas Tech - Engineering 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waukegan PSD #60 2,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vista Medical Center 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR Visual Pak Waukegan 807 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Blending & Filling 793 FTE
NAT-TCR Wells Construction Inc 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Western MA 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ANGI Energy Systems LLC 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Isabel Bloom 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE GS Steel LLC 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magnolia Metal Corp. 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant 401 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accu-Precision 59 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. 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.