Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors · Illinois

Area Erectors - Chicago

Villa Park, IL · ~46 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Area Erectors - Chicago runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Area Erectors - Chicago: 5.6 TCR = 200% of Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Area Erectors - Chicago safety composite

Area Erectors - Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Area Erectors - Chicago: 5.3 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2023

Area Erectors - Chicago's TCR rose 1.3 from 5.3 in 2016 to 6.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Villa Park, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 200% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #22/30
  • PHOTO Parsons Steel Erecto…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Parsons Steel Erectors, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Area Erectors - Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Area Erectors - Chicago averages 5.6 TCR (200% of the Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Area Erectors - Chicago TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2018=8.3 · 2019=8.8 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=6.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Area Erectors - Chicago falls in its industry

705 Structural steel erecting or i establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 30 Structural steel erecting or i employers in Illinois.

Area Erectors - Chicago (46 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Area Erectors - Chicago
Area Erectors - Chicago (46 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Area Erectors - Chicago has fewer employees than the Structural steel erecting or iron work c median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 6.6 6.6 2 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2021 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2020 4.4 2.2 4 0 0
2019 8.8 6.6 4 0 0
2018 8.3 4.1 4 0 0
2016 5.3 5.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · IL · Villa Park

705 Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 46 employers in Villa Park, 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 Parsons Steel Erectors, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precast Services, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pre Con Construction Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Division 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Carlyle KFC (MPF1) 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2502-Ashton, IL 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE MID AMERICA ENERGY SERVICES, INC. 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utility Department 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR 100W-SEG1-100W 336 FTE
CITY-NEAR 17PK-SEG1-17PK VT-VILLA PK 335 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1737 300 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1737 293 FTE
NAT-TCR Magna Engineered Glass 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Price Rite of Paterson 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Comal Health Care Center Ltd. Co. d/b/a Sundance Inn Health Center 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Simulab Corporation 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE MSY New Orleans Airport 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Airgas Dry Ice - Hopewell 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE ALTEC 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services, MIA, Miami Int'l Airport 46 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.