Acoustical ceiling tile and panel installation · Illinois

A&K Specialty

Marion, IL · ~50 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A&K Specialty runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Acoustical ceiling tile and panel installation workplace, earning a grade D.

A&K Specialty: 3.6 TCR = 130% of Acoustical ceiling tile and panel installation BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A&K Specialty safety composite

A&K Specialty scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

A&K Specialty: 0.0 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2023

A&K Specialty's TCR rose 4.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · Marion, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 130% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #31/50
  • PHOTO Competitive Interior…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Competitive Interiors Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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A&K Specialty in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A&K Specialty averages 3.6 TCR (130% of the Acoustical ceiling tile and panel installation BLS benchmark).

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

A&K Specialty TCR series: 2016=0 · 2019=3 · 2020=0 · 2021=10.7 · 2023=4.5 · BLS 2.8

Where A&K Specialty falls in its industry

1,613 Acoustical ceiling tile and pa establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 50 Acoustical ceiling tile and pa employers in Illinois.

A&K Specialty (50 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate A&K Specialty
A&K Specialty (50 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

A&K Specialty has fewer employees than the Acoustical ceiling tile and panel instal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2023 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2021 10.7 10.7 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · IL · Marion

1,613 Acoustical ceiling tile and panel installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 77 employers in Marion, 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 Competitive Interiors Inc 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sears Contract, Inc. - Raleigh 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 180 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Expert Drywall, Inc. 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Champaign CMI1 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1240-Monmouth, IL 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Constellation Nuclear Services & Training Center (STC) 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Storage 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR AISIN MFG. ILLINOIS, LLC 1,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR USP Marion 659 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aisin Electronics 565 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3180 522 FTE
NAT-TCR Advanced Metal Components 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ameritex Services 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rodon Limited Partnership 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tamalpais Commercial Cabinetry, Inc 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Uhl Truck Sales Inc. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE GW Tatro Construction Inc. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Air Motion Systems, Inc. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlantic Precision, Inc. 50 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: 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2016. 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.