Plumbing contractors · Illinois

Baker & Sons Plumbing

Marion, IL · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Baker & Sons Plumbing runs at 364% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbing contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Baker & Sons Plumbing: 10.2 TCR = 364% of Plumbing contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baker & Sons Plumbing safety composite

Baker & Sons Plumbing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Baker & Sons Plumbing: 4.3 → 16.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 16.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2022

Baker & Sons Plumbing's TCR rose 11.7 from 4.3 in 2021 to 16.0 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Marion, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 364% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #218/230
  • PHOTO Atlas Butler Capital…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atlas Butler Capital Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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Baker & Sons Plumbing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baker & Sons Plumbing averages 10.2 TCR (364% of the Plumbing contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Baker & Sons Plumbing TCR series: 2021=4.3 · 2022=16 · BLS 2.8

Where Baker & Sons Plumbing falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing contractors establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #218 safest of 230 Plumbing contractors employers in Illinois.

Baker & Sons Plumbing (25 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 Baker & Sons Plumbing
Baker & Sons Plumbing (25 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Baker & Sons Plumbing has fewer employees than the Plumbing contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2022 16.0 8.0 4 0 0
2021 4.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · IL · Marion

5,793 Plumbing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 77 employers in Marion, 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 Atlas Butler Capital Services 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Iron Oak Plumbing, Inc. 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Climate Design 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Culligan - Minnetonka 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Emerald Mound Lebanon Fire Department 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steve Piper and Sons, Inc 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Meter Services North 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR AISIN MFG. ILLINOIS, LLC 1,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR USP Marion 659 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aisin Electronics 565 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3180 522 FTE
NAT-TCR Bodine Aluminum, Inc. - Troy 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Accent Food Services Dallas 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR HJC Farms Inc. 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 159176-Twi-Pioneer Sta 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6795-01129B02 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE McCarty Family Farms 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silver Arrow Estates 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Griffco of Wampee Inc 25 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.