Steel merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Arbon Steel & Service Company

University Part, IL · ~49 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Arbon Steel & Service Company runs at 300% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Arbon Steel & Service Company: 6.6 TCR = 300% of Steel merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Arbon Steel & Service Company safety composite

Arbon Steel & Service Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.4

2016→2018

Arbon Steel & Service Company injury rate improved

Arbon Steel & Service Company's TCR fell 4.4 from 6.3 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.3 · 2017=11.8 · 2018=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · University Part, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 300% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #84/107
  • PHOTO BRANCH 34
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BRANCH 34 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Arbon Steel & Service Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Arbon Steel & Service Company averages 6.6 TCR (300% of the Steel merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Arbon Steel & Service Company TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=11.8 · 2018=1.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Arbon Steel & Service Company falls in its industry

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #84 safest of 107 Steel merchant wholesalers employers in Illinois.

Arbon Steel & Service Company (49 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Arbon Steel & Service Company
Arbon Steel & Service Company (49 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Arbon Steel & Service Company has more employees than the Steel merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2017 11.8 5.9 6 0 0
2016 6.3 0.0 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IL · University Part

1,299 Steel merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 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 BRANCH 34 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terra Tech Services Midland 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jacquet Midwest 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR EMJ - Kent 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Boller Construction Co., Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Pipelining INC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM. Aupperle & Sons, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE RI Glass Group 49 FTE
NAT-TCR Montgomery AL USA Plant 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tampa Facility 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 2 - Terminal 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2205 - Marietta 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Diana's Bakery Enfield 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Impaction 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Powdersize, LLC 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holland - DS 49 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, 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.