Springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · Illinois

Alco Spring

Chicago Heights, IL · ~33 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alco Spring runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Alco Spring: 7.5 TCR = 228% of Springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alco Spring safety composite

Alco Spring scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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 7.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Alco Spring: 5.6 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.36× in 2024

Alco Spring's TCR rose 4.7 from 5.6 in 2020 to 10.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332613 · Chicago Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 228% of ind

  • DART 10.2 DART
  • RANK #15/17
  • PHOTO Service Spring West
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Service Spring West (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alco Spring in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alco Spring averages 7.5 TCR (228% of the Springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Alco Spring TCR series: 2020=5.6 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=9.2 · 2024=10.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Alco Spring falls in its industry

189 Springs, heavy gauge metal, ma establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 17 Springs, heavy gauge metal, ma employers in Illinois.

Alco Spring (33 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Alco Spring
Alco Spring (33 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Alco Spring has fewer employees than the Springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024 10.2 10.2 3 0 0
2023 9.2 6.2 2 1 0
2022 9.4 3.1 3 0 0
2021 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 5.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332613 · IL · Chicago Heights

189 Springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 82 employers in Chicago 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 Service Spring West 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newcomb Spring of CT 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SSC-MA 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Daewon America #2 7.3 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 309 CHICAGO 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHICAGO STMP 1,226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6284-YR-309 RX 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR CGT 581 FTE
NAT-TCR GF Management Company 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 2586 - Wauwatosa 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1396 - Pasadena 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR North Liberty Iowa 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Weitron, Everetts, NC Facility 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gristedes #543 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE D'Agostino #809 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Multiwall Sheridan a division of Signode Industrial Group 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, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.