Communications wire and cable, nonferrous, made from purchased nonferrous wire · Illinois

Basic Wire and Cable

Chicago, IL · ~70 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Basic Wire and Cable runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Communications wire and cable, nonferrous, made from purchased nonferrous wire workplace, earning a grade A.

Basic Wire and Cable: 1.5 TCR = 46% of Communications wire and cable, nonferrous, made from purchased nonferrous wire BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Basic Wire and Cable safety composite

Basic Wire and Cable scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−3.0

2023→2024

Basic Wire and Cable injury rate improved

Basic Wire and Cable's TCR fell 3.0 from 3.0 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335929 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/11
  • PHOTO Radix Wire & Cable -…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Radix Wire & Cable - GW (0.0 TCR gap)

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Basic Wire and Cable in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Basic Wire and Cable averages 1.5 TCR (46% of the Communications wire and cable, nonferrous, made from purchased nonferrous wire BLS benchmark).

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

Basic Wire and Cable TCR series: 2023=3 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Basic Wire and Cable falls in its industry

144 Communications wire and cable, establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 11 Communications wire and cable, employers in Illinois.

Basic Wire and Cable (70 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Basic Wire and Cable
Basic Wire and Cable (70 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Basic Wire and Cable has fewer employees than the Communications wire and cable, nonferrou median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.0 3.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335929 · IL · Chicago

144 Communications wire and cable, nonferrous, made from purchased nonferrous wire 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 Radix Wire & Cable - GW 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dekoron Wire and Cable 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CBI CABLES 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Killdeer Mountain Manufacturing, Inc. Dickinson facility 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2510-Waterman, IL-R&D (Monsanto Co.) 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stewart Spreading Inc 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Duck Creek Power Station 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cahokia IL 70 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 Martinrea Tuscaloosa, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cunningham DeLaney Construction 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Blackwater Electric Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Magnolia Marketplace LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Steadfast Management Company, Inc. 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nazareth 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Branford 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atchison 70 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: 2024, 2023. 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.