Exhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Illinois

American Metal Fibers, Inc.

Name: American Metal Fibers, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Lake Bluff, IL · ~73 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.6
Avg TCR: 5.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

American Metal Fibers, Inc. runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Exhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

American Metal Fibers, Inc.: 4.6 TCR = 86% of Exhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Metal Fibers, Inc. safety composite

American Metal Fibers, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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).

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

American Metal Fibers, Inc.: 2.5 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2021

American Metal Fibers, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.3 from 2.5 in 2017 to 6.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Lake Bluff, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.6 · 86% of ind

DART 3.4 DART
RANK #33/41
PHOTO Superior Industries …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Superior Industries Fayetteville (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows American Metal Fibers, Inc. averages 4.6 TCR (86% of the Exhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

American Metal Fibers, Inc. TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2021=6.8 · BLS 5.4

Where American Metal Fibers, Inc. falls in its industry

772 Exhaust systems and parts, aut establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 41 Exhaust systems and parts, aut employers in Illinois.

American Metal Fibers, Inc. (73 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

American Metal Fibers, Inc. has fewer employees than the Exhaust systems and parts, automotive, t median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2021	6.8	3.4	4	0	0
2017	2.5	2.5	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · IL · Lake Bluff

772 Exhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 27 employers in Lake Bluff, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Superior Industries Fayetteville	FAYETTEVILLE, AR	4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	N-Fab	HOUSTON, TX	4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Webasto Convertibles USA INC	PLYMOUTH, MI	4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Automatic Equipment/Blue Ox	PENDER, NE	4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	SouthEastern Illinois Electric Cooperative	CARRIER MILLS	73 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Tech - Operations	SPRINGFIELD	73 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Civil Constructors Inc Moline Structures Divison	EAST MOLINE	73 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Standard Sheet Metal Works, Inc	PEORIA	73 FTE
CITY-NEAR	AMZL : DDC3	Lake Bluff	1,075 FTE
CITY-NEAR	AMZL : DCH4	Lake Bluff	1,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR	PCI ENERGY SERVICES, LLC	Lake Bluff	533 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mariani Landscape	Lake Bluff	488 FTE
NAT-TCR	Protolabs - Rapid 22	Nashua, NH	4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Glanbia Gooding Whey Plant	Gooding, ID	4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Nye's Truck Repair & Wash, LLC	Moravia, NY	4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Middletown General Government (City Hall)	Middletown, CT	4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Cairo Research	Cairo, GA	73 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pacifica Hotels Corporate Office	Aliso Viejo, CA	73 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sedano's Supermarket #39	Kissimmee, FL	73 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lucas Construction Group, Inc.	Tinton Falls, NJ	73 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: 2021, 2017. 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.