Machine shops · Illinois

AxleTech

Chicago, IL · ~111 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AxleTech runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

AxleTech: 5.9 TCR = 178% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AxleTech safety composite

AxleTech scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

AxleTech: 4.1 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2018

AxleTech's TCR rose 2.7 from 4.1 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 178% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #79/103
  • PHOTO NMP, Inc (dba: Nowak…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NMP, Inc (dba: Nowak Machined Products) (0.0 TCR gap)

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AxleTech in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AxleTech averages 5.9 TCR (178% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

AxleTech TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=6.8 · BLS 3.3

Where AxleTech falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #79 safest of 103 Machine shops employers in Illinois.

AxleTech (111 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate AxleTech
AxleTech (111 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

AxleTech has more employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 6.8 4.5 9 0 0
2017 6.6 4.1 8 0 0
2016 4.1 3.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · IL · Chicago

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 NMP, Inc (dba: Nowak Machined Products) 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Velocity Machine Inc 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Echo Quality Grinding 1 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MDI Manufacturing, Inc. 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Powerton Station 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG Bellwood Reporting Center 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Contegra Holdings, Inc. and Subsidiaries 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stenstrom Excavation and Blacktop Group 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Silverwoods, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cedar Bayou Nursing and Rehab Center 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 7B 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Airport Hub (Gaair) 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Huntington Woods 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landing Gear 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belmont Village Memphis 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE SNA - Airport United Airlines Offices 111 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.