Gear cutting and finishing machines, metalworking, manufacturing · Illinois

Arrow Gear Company

Name: Arrow Gear Company Workplace Safety Data
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Downers Grove, IL · ~172 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Arrow Gear Company runs at 221% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Gear cutting and finishing machines, metalworking, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Arrow Gear Company: 7.3 TCR = 221% of Gear cutting and finishing machines, metalworking, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Arrow Gear Company safety composite

Arrow Gear Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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).

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−5.3

2018→2023

Arrow Gear Company injury rate improved

Arrow Gear Company's TCR fell 5.3 from 10.3 in 2018 to 5.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=10.3 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333517 · Downers Grove, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 221% of ind

DART 5.0 DART
RANK #28/35
PHOTO Encore Packaging, LLC
BOOK 3y book
INJ 42 inj
SIZE ~172 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Encore Packaging, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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7.3
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7.3
Mursix Corpora

7.2
Orick Stamping

7.2

What this shows Arrow Gear Company averages 7.3 TCR (221% of the Gear cutting and finishing machines, metalworking, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Arrow Gear Company TCR series: 2018=10.3 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Arrow Gear Company falls in its industry

391 Gear cutting and finishing mac establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 35 Gear cutting and finishing mac employers in Illinois.

Arrow Gear Company (172 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Arrow Gear Company has more employees than the Gear cutting and finishing machines, met 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
2023	5.0	5.0	8	0
2022	6.6	3.6	10	1
2018	10.3	6.8	24	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333517 · IL · Downers Grove

391 Gear cutting and finishing machines, metalworking, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 139 employers in Downers Grove, 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	Encore Packaging, LLC	LAKE VILLA, IL	7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	AZT Technology - S	NAPLES, FL	7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Mursix Corporation	YORKTOWN, IN	7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Orick Stamping	ELIDA, OH	7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Alamp Concrete	SCHAUMBURG	172 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sensient Flavors, LLC	AMBOY	172 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rantoul	RANTOUL	172 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ArcelorMittal Corporate - Chicago (EIN 710871875)	CHICAGO	172 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Advocate Medical Group	Downers Grove	5,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Advocate Support Centers	Downers Grove	2,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital	Downers Grove	1,958 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ADVOCATE CHILDRENS HOSPITALS	Downers Grove	1,734 FTE
NAT-TCR	Apex Plastics	Brookfield, MO	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hansen's IGA Washburn	Washburn, WI	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Konwinski Construction Inc	Mt. Pleasant, MI	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Main Building	Sparta, WI	7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3	Hickory, NC	172 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cosette Pharmaceuticals Inc	South Plainfield, NJ	172 FTE
NAT-SIZE	uniQure, Inc	Lexington, MA	172 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sysco Idaho	Boise, ID	172 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, 2018. 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.